Fiction Spring 2024

In the woods near Essen, a ragged vagrant lies dead in his tent. In a smart apartment block in Essen’s city centre, an old lady is found dead in her flat. In an empty, derelict hospital in Bochum...

Ex-murder squad detective Carla Seidel has transferred from Hamburg to the idyllic Wendland region in eastern Germany. She has moved into an old timber-frame house, and is hoping to make a fresh ...

While his fellow judges are driven to despair by a new digital platform, Siggi Buckmann can barely manage a weak smile. Sweet worries! No sooner has he returned from his ex-wife Britta’s wedding,...

A sad occasion brings famous author Niklas Westphal back to his childhood home: his mother has just passed away. No sooner has he entered his old family home than Niklas starts having disturbing ...

The thing has appeared from somewhere in the deepest depths of outer space. At first, they think it’s an asteroid. But then Zeta starts orbiting Saturn and sending out signals at regular interval...

The whole of Vienna has caught opera-ball fever. Even journalist Sarah Pauli is on duty at the Wiener Boten newspaper’s glamorous ball. But the party is suddenly cut short when celebrated actor N...

Gifted actor Jan Jespik has fallen head over heels for an erotic, passionate woman. Mona has just been released from prison, and has told him her painful story. She hasn’t heard anything from her...

Henrik Falkner’s antique shop in Lisbon’s old town is an oasis for lovers of old books and unusual finds. And it desperately needs renovating. So Henrik’s lucrative new job couldn’t come at a bet...

Vienna, 1948. MI6 agent Daphne Parson is working in a surveillance tunnel under the divided city. To get to the Soviet sector without being noticed, she infiltrates a film crew. It’s a mission th...

The world in which Fiora grows up is a nightmare of sand and rock under a searing hot sun. Worse, though, is the hate she encounters everywhere – because her origins are shrouded in a dark secret...