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The Arms Maker of Berlin

The Arms Maker of Berlin
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A ruthless arms billionaire and a disgraced history professor share a terrible secret. Nat Turnbull is dragged abruptly from his quiet academic life when his former mentor Professor Gordon Wolfe is arrested for stealing top secret archive documents dating...

Nightfall Berlin

Nightfall Berlin
  • Author(s): Jack Grimwood
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

In 1986, news that East-West nuclear-arms negotiations are taking place lead many to believe the Cold War may finally be thawing. For British intelligence officer Major Tom Fox, however, it is business as usual. Ordered to arrange the smooth...

Half a World Away

Half a World Away
  • Author(s): Sue Haasler
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Charming and talented Alex dreams of becoming a professional saxophonist while working long hours in the family bakery. Detlef, lonely, repressed, and a small-time Stasi informer, develops an obsessive love for him. But Alex has eyes only for Nicky,...

Greeks Bearing Gifts

Greeks Bearing Gifts
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s / WW2

No 13 in the Bernie Gunther series…. 1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther’s latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have...

A Darker State

A Darker State
  • Author(s): David Young
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People’s Police, is called to investigate. But her power will stretch only so far, when every move she makes...

Turning: A Swimming Memoir

Turning: A Swimming Memoir
  • Author(s): Jessica J Lee
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Modern

‘The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, my breasts, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my...

Solitaire

Solitaire
  • Author(s): Jane Thynne
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): World War Two

June 1940: Berlin is being bombed. Clara Vine is an Anglo-German woman in a country that hates England. The Propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, decides that Clara should adopt a new role as his spy, and so Clara must go...

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...

Acts of Omission

Acts of Omission
  • Author(s): Terry Stiastny
  • Location(s): Berlin, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In 1998 the gilt is starting to come off a new era. Mark Lucas, the recently appointed foreign minister, is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the...

Go Went Gone

Go Went Gone
  • Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe’s biggest issueRichard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing...

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