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Laid in Earth

Laid in Earth
  • Author(s): Graham Brack
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Why dig a new grave when one already exists…? With his diet slipping and his penchant for Czech beer and pastries ever-growing, Captain Josef Slonský is back to his old ways. Except now he has four officers in his...

Lying and Dying

Lying and Dying
  • Author(s): Graham Brack
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A thrilling police procedural with an unexpected twist… (Josef Slonský Investigations 1) Prague, Czech Republic The body of a young woman is found strangled by the side of the road. There are no obvious clues to what happened, apart...

Melmoth

Melmoth
  • Author(s): Sarah Perry
  • Location(s): Prague, World
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Prague Fatale

Prague Fatale
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin, Prague
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Part of the epic series featuring Bernie Gunther. Summer of 194a in Berlin, Gunther is in persuit of killer. He meets a girl, who needs rescuing from a seeming rape-attack and they subsequently begin a relationship. He is relocated...

Prague Spring

Prague Spring
  • Author(s): Simon Mawer
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1968

It’s the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent,...

Puppets of Prague

Puppets of Prague
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): Prague, Prussia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth century

Can the dream of freedom overcome fear and oppression? Friendships, marriages and loyalties are tested to the limit in this novel which spans Prague’s tumultuous twentieth century . In the summer of 1914 young love beckons and the future...

Roger and the Cancelled Czech

Roger and the Cancelled Czech
  • Author(s): Jerold Last
  • Location(s): Prague, Budapest, Munich, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Who is The Cobra, a shadowy character with major connections to the worlds of espionage and art theft? The answer to this question is the key to finding the leaders of a mysterious worldwide political conspiracy with its roots...

The Book of Prague: Reading the City

The Book of Prague: Reading the City
  • Author(s): Ivana Myšková (editor), Jan Zikmund (editor)
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much the city has changed… The son of political dissidents in Soviet-era Prague is condemned to a life of menial jobs, like working at...

THE DOUBLE GAME

THE DOUBLE GAME
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Vienna, Budapest, Prague
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary, 1970s

A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to young journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a fan who grew up as a Foreign Service brat...

The Lights of Prague

The Lights of Prague
  • Author(s): Nicole Jarvis
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Gaslight era

For readers of VE Schwab and The Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague. In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against...

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