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The River Runs Red

The River Runs Red
  • Author(s): Ally Rose
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Berlin is in the midst of its worst winter in decades.Against the backdrop of freezing temperatures, blizzards and snowstorms, the city refuses to grind to a halt. Lurking within the shadows is a Stasi victim, out for revenge against...

The Hiding Game

The Hiding Game
  • Author(s): Naomi Wood
  • Location(s): Germany, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s and looking back

In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become,...

The Fatherland Files

The Fatherland Files
  • Author(s): Volker Kutscher
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

July 1932. When a drowned man is found in a freight elevator in Haus Vaterland, the giant pleasure palace on Potsdamer Platz, Inspector Gereon Rath is called in to investigate. It’s not that Rath hasn’t problems enough. His hunt...

Metropolis

Metropolis
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners – after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that...

In the Full Light of the Sun

In the Full Light of the Sun
  • Author(s): Clare Clark
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920/30s

In the Full Light of the Sun follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in a devastating scandal of 1930s’ Germany. It tells the story of Emmeline, a wayward, young art student; Julius, an anxious, middle-aged art expert;...

The Escape

The Escape
  • Author(s): Clare Harvey
  • Location(s): Germany, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1945, 1989

One winter morning in Germany in early 1945, Detta passes a group of exhausted British prisoners of war who are being force-marched westwards. One man catches her eye and she cannot forget him. The following day she receives an...

The Man Who Saw Everything

The Man Who Saw Everything
  • Author(s): Deborah Levy
  • Location(s): London, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1988 & 2016

In 1989, Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Road crossing. He is fine; he gets up and goes to see his girlfriend, Jennifer. They have sex and then break up. He leaves for the GDR, where...

Disposable Man

Disposable Man
  • Author(s): Michael Levitin
  • Location(s): Eastern Europe, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1905 to present

Set in contemporary Berlin, Disposable Man tells the story of Max Krumm: American expatriate, struggling journalist and the reluctant descendant of Holocaust survivors. Krumm also suffers from a mysterious genetic disorder: All of the men in his family are...

A Young Man’s Game

A Young Man’s Game
  • Author(s): Paul Blake
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alec Foster is no Jason Bourne. He is Head of Section in Berlin for M16. He is fifty-one, and a borderline alcoholic counting down the days to retirement. Alec is told of a plot to assassinate a British Minister...

Safe Houses

Safe Houses
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s and present

In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA’s operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life;...

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