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4 a.m.

4 a.m.
  • Author(s): Nina De La Mer
  • Location(s): Fallingbostel, Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in the early 1990s on a British army base, 4 a.m. tells the story of Cal and Manny, soldiers posted to Germany as army chefs. Bored and institutionalised, the pair soon succumb to the neon temptations of Hamburg’s red-light district,...

A Most Wanted Man

A Most Wanted Man
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is...

A Small Circus

A Small Circus
  • Author(s): Hans Fallada
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1929

It is 1929, and the Weimar Republic is being steadily weakened by conflicts between the factions pro democracy, and the anti-democratic forces, both left and right wing, which will eventually lead to victory for the of the National Socialists...

A Small Death in Lisbon

A Small Death in Lisbon
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): Berlin, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1990s

Europe, 1941: Lisbon is one of the world’s tensest cities, and as the Nazis and Allies jostle for power, Iberia becomes a fulcrum for the menace that is about to engulf Europe. Klaus Felsen, torn from his Berlin factory...

A Wolf in Hindelheim

A Wolf in Hindelheim
  • Author(s): Jenny Mayhew
  • Location(s): South West Germany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1926

South-West Germany, 1926. The disappearance of a baby girl calls for Constable Theodore Hildebrandt and his son Klaus to visit the remote village of Hindelheim, a place where nothing ever happens. But the news of the missing baby has...

A Woman in Berlin

A Woman in Berlin
  • Author(s): Anonymous
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding,...

Agents of the State

Agents of the State
  • Author(s): Mike Nicol
  • Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), Berlin, Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

BERLIN. Agent Vicki Kahn is on her first foreign mission for the South African government, on the trail of an international child-trafficker. A complication she doesn’t need is that the President’s son is somewhere in the mix. When Vicki...

Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin
  • Author(s): Hans Fallada
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

American Assassin

American Assassin
  • Author(s): Vince Flynn
  • Location(s): Germany, Istanbul (Constantinople), Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

What type of man is willing to kill for his country without putting on a uniform? Six months ago, Mitch Rapp was just an ordinary college student. Then the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack stole the lives of two...

Anatomy of a Killer

Anatomy of a Killer
  • Author(s): Romy Hausmann
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

They say he’s a murderer. But how could he be? Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red ribbons show the police the way to their bodies, but there’s no trace of the...

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