Eros is living among the mortals - albeit under pressure from on high. Zeus has sent him to Earth to give him one last chance, seeing as he's botched things up so...

Sometimes, Nora thinks that her mother Elaine will send her to an early grave. Just as she has made herself comfortable in her life with her boyfriend, Nora's excentric...

Mephistopheles the tomcat, who goes by the name of Stoffele, is dying to play detective, just once in his life. And so he persuades his mistress to write a story for a crime...

Paul is in his mid-thirties, and he is dead. The young psychotherapist dies in his flat one night, completely unexpectedly. At first it looks like he's had a stroke. But...

In July 1904 a big ocean liner is docked in Antwerp, ready to start its journey to New York...

"You will look for me and discover yourself."

The elegant fin-de-siècle world comes together in the newly re-opened Hotel Kursaal Maloja....

Germany in the early 1950s: the memory of war is still fresh but the people's hearts are full of hope. Against this background, childhood friends Karl and Theo find...

As summer draws to a close, Detective Constable Katharina Berger returns to Weil, her hometown in Upper Bavaria, transferred from Munich a few days ago for disciplinary reasons....

The fast-paced, witty and thought-provoking story of a modern young couple

Melanie made it in the nick of time. It all began as her biological clock started to tick...

Stella is investigating the mysterious death of a colleague, working on behalf of her editor-in-chief and assisted by her mother, Irma. Valerie met her death in Umbria, in the...

At long last Osman fulfils his promise to send monthly letters to his aged uncle who lives all on his own back in Anatolia, describing in detail what life is like in Germany....

Osman's status as a fully-fledged "Deutschlander" is seriously threatened when he comes back from his obligatory family holiday in Turkey to discover that ...

...dinner is served… 

A blood-stained boar's head in Judge Moratschek's bed sets Franz Eberhofer on the trail of a dangerous psychopath....

Two young men, friends since early child-hood, speed away on their trip into life. Until the accident. Uli believes fiercely that Hannes will awake from his coma, soon. He...

It's business as usual: crime is rife in Niederkaltenkirchen...

Franz Eberhofer's relationship with Susi is ticking along quite nicely and his pigsty...

There's trouble afoot in Niederkaltenkirchen once again. A policeman is found dead - and the last person who saw him alive was Franz Eberhofer! The dead cop was...

For disciplinary reasons, Franz Eberhofer is forced to leave his post with the Munich police and is transferred to his home village of Niederkaltenkirchen in Lower Bavaria....

Retired British Intelligence agent James (70) goes on a Mediterranean cruise with his former colleague Sheila Humphrey (67). The holiday comes as an invitation from...

Mysterious murders in the nursing home…

James Gerald, former secret agent, investigates in Hastings 

Retired spy James...

Dorte Martens works for a pharmaceutical company. She specialises in coleoptology (the study of beetles) and has no time for personal relationships.

One day, while...

"STOP STARING AT THE MURDERERS! 

Stop asking over and over how evil comes into the world. It has always been here. Let go of Hitler, be pitiless and deny the...

"You poor old high society ladies. As superfluous as fleas on a dog!"

In April 1901, at the tender age of 30, Dr. Clara Immerwahr has reached the zenith...

"Why on earth did I insist on having the celebration at home, in the shed?" 49-year-old Barbara asks herself on the eve of her silver wedding anniversary. In the end...

Berlin 1922. Arnold Wegner is an artist who depicts the era he lives in as one of stark contrasts - poverty and luxury, war and extravagance, sickness and insanity. His...

Berlin in the 1920s: a golden age. Against this backdrop, a dedicated doctor and campaigner for women's rights is found dead. Her nephew is convinced her death...

The joint group of Welsen and Undae have split up and time is running short. While the three groups strive to reach the springs in different regions of the continent, the ...

The wells are running dry and there's trouble in the wind…

As yet, the threat to the Continent is almost imperceptible. The Nations are living in peace and...

The peace of the sleepy wine town of Geisenheim has been shattered: Alexandra, a student at the local polytechnic, is found slumped in her flat, beaten to death with an Oscar...

Swimming, sailing, surfing, drinking wine: all this and more are the joys of a holiday on the shores of Lake Neusiedl in Austria. But the translator Carl Breitenbach,...

The death of his uncle creates serious problems for the Berlin-based architect Nicolas Hollmann: why was the vineyard on the Rio Douro bequeathed to him of all people? Is he...

The Baden-Baden wine festival, with four thousand wines from around the world up for evaluation, is just around the corner. The judging panel's leading luminary is Alan...

Martin Bongers, formerly a Frankfurt wine merchant and, for the last five years, a wine grower in Bordeaux, is in urgent need of money. So, when a French investor asks him to...

Champagne, lots of money - and a murder? A sparkling blend.

Philipp Achenbach has a problem: his boss, the owner of a Cologne-based wine import...

Georg Hellmann comes to the Moselle vineyards weighed down by heavy baggage. He has just quit his job as a security expert, his wife has thrown him out and refuses to let him...

The new bestseller by Dora Heldt !

46-year old Christine is waiting for her boyfriend at the train station, full of anticipation - she's...

"We'll be able to do it with our hands tied behind our backs!" It's just as well that Ines isn't easily daunted, because if it weren't for...

"It's only for a fortnight." My mother sounded friendly and very determined. I'd had an uneasy feeling right from the start of the conversation. "And he is your...

What could be worse than the prospect celebrating your 50 ^th birthday in a humdrum suburban restaurant in the company of your entire family? Especially if you suffer...

Papa Heinz (75) and his brother-in-law Walter (69) have won the holiday of a lifetime: an exclusive trip for well-off senior citizens - at least that's what the...

Berlin, 1947. A young American soldier comes to the ruined city and falls in love with a young girl he happens to spot standing by...

Three women, three lives.

It's too late for reconciliation: for ten years Maja Sternberg has had no contact with her mother Lilli - and now...

Artfully draped over a tombstone, the body of a young man is discovered in a graveyard on Lake Constance. At the same time, terrible news awaits Marie, an artist: Erik, the...

Everyone in Paris knows him: Mr Cho, the mysterious tea master, who lives a life of lonely seclusion. One day a young woman turns up at his shop and asks him to perform a...

One winter's day just before Christmas, Sami discovers a little glass vial full of unrecognisable grains in a graveyard. He takes the vial to the nearest pharmacy, where...

A man without memory. But the past catches up with him…  

After an accident that virtually destroys his face, the life of German entrepreneur Max...

The first time young Elia Corelli hears the world-famous opera star Mariana Lipovska sing, it's as if she has found her soul mate - and, at the same time, her vocation. And ...

Marija, daughter of the greatly feared Czar Kaschtschej, is the Mistress of the Summer Solstice. According to an age-old prophecy, if the Mistress were ever to fall in love,...

An atmospheric crime thriller full of suspense and comedy

Art student Harry Oldenburg has been flat broke for long enough, and decides the time has come to...

From the North Sea to the Venetian lagoon - the second art and crime thriller by Krischan Koch

Venice is in the throes of the biennale and awash with tourists....

The village of Fredenbüll on the coast of Northern Frisia boasts three breakwaters, a population of 176 (including a blue-blooded family), 600 sheep (organically raised,...

Beautiful and successful Jule Schwarz has been sent to promote a windfarm project to the inhabitants of a remote village. But even as she makes her way there, inexplicable...

A man for after hours...

Niels Felitsch, in his early forties, tall, slim, fit, an intellectual, is culture editor on a daily paper. When he is made redundant...

Cordoba, 11th century AD: the great caliphate era is drawing to a close, but Cordoba still shines with imperial splendour. Princess Valada, daughter of Caliph Muhammad...

Beauty. Disgrace. And Pain.

A young woman visits a tattooist requesting an unusual design. The silent man, who has learned the art of irezumi in Japan, has a...

For years, Ashby House has been on a top secret document listing Britain's paranormal activity hotspots. But on this still and frosty January morning it stands quiet and...

Laura Shalott - recently separated from her husband, shape-shifter Hector Slasher - is taking a break in London to recharge her batteries. There she is contacted ...

Even when she's asleep, she looks guilty…

... Shameless. Stripped of petals like a rose… Shirin Talabani, 31, is dead. The...

On the banks of Lake Pinnow in East Germany, a pool of blood is congealing on the floor of a brutally wrecked clubhouse owned by the notorious Devil Doves motorcycle gang. But...

Wencke Tydmers has to go to Iceland to stand in for her boss at a symposium - but as things stand, the criminal profiler really has no time for this kind of thing. Her...

The little boy who will grow up to be King Louis XIV of France is only four years old when he meets Nicolas Fouquet, his senior by more than twenty years - a gifted ...

The setting is Leipzig at the turn of the 19 ^th century: an ambitious and at times tyrannical piano teacher and music shop owner, Friedrich Wieck is set on turning...

Four inmates of the St. Ägidius mental home revitalize their institution's finances and then float it on the stock market. What can you expect, after all, from ...

"Darling, I think there's something you ought to know. You are the president."

The president of a western industrial nation...

A small Austrian mountain village, back in the 1970's. Franz Kreuziger, the son of the former mayor, is discovered dead in the forest - with an axe in his head. A suspect is...

Northern Germany - 1907. At Hilgensee, a seminary for well-bred protestant ladies, a series of mysterious incidents takes place - an unexplained death, a decapitated rooster...

Marie has everything a woman could possibly want - except for one thing: contentment. She drowns her frustration in nightly cocktails, until her disapproving husband...

Anton Schwarz's career as a chief inspector has ended in failure, and he now works as a private detective. A problematic job turns out to involve his ex-wife, for whom he ...

In the wake of the tragic suicide of seminarian Matthias Sass, a group of teenagers finds Heimeran, a Catholic priest, hanged under a bridge. For Matthias, who grew up without...

Ever since he ran over a young man, train driver Klaus Engler has been plagued by guilt. As if that weren't bad enough, he has the feeling he is being followed and...

Meticulous coroner Dr Martin Gansewein leads a quiet life. That is, until the day the spirit of Pascha, a small-time criminal who dealt in stolen cars and whose body is now...

Ghost Pascha from "Cold Store 4" is back …

… and is continuing exactly where he left off: while the only living person he can communicate with,...

Millie's Magazine: cutting-edge couture…

Air stewardess Millie is really hacked off: with her 30 ^th birthday drawing near, a serious ear...

The third book in the cult Cold Store series:

Evil is always and everywhere - even in cold stores

Cologne is in ...

When he hears news of a serious accident on the police radio, wandering spirit Pascha is instantly on the scene. A car has veered off the road and four children are badly injured....

Job gone, boyfriend gone, and home as good as gone. But 31-year-old Corinna wouldn't be resourceful Nana's granddaughter if she didn't immediately throw...

Love in the time of the energy saving lamp 

Fresh out of university, 26-year-old Leonie lands a job as product manager for a leading wholesale butchery....

Can love survive in the shadow of cholera?

In 1853, Henriette Dahlbeck, the daughter of wealthy merchants in Munich, meets physician and scientist Dr Aaron...

Forced into a marriage on faraway Java… Caught up in a sinister intrigue… Trapped in an inferno of...

Germany, 1900: To save her childhood sweetheart Nicholas from the guillotine, Salome sets out from Berlin to Munich. Although a terrible accident has left her unable to walk...

"Dost thou recall thy promise to draw me a map of the world?"

It is Germany, 1218, and Otto IV, son of Henry the Lion, has died. Gervase of...

Rafik Schami has been living in Germany for almost 40 years now, but he has not lost his marvelling and critical look at German everyday life. In his inimitable charming way ...

One of the most scandalous love stories of history: a renegade monk marries a run-away nun, and in the process our understanding of love between man and woman takes on a...

When her youngest son finally flies the nest, Marie Overbeck - an active and dynamic woman in her mid-fifties - is on the lookout for new challenges. She runs into...

Dani and Michael's wedding preparations are in full swing - while for Gesa, who works as a manicurist, everything is going wrong as usual. Through Dani she meets Richard, a...

46-year-old Mia is a little bit pudgy, a little bit messy, and leads an uneventful life. The testamentary executor has been a widow for seven years, and her son Magnus is at...

What happens if the man of your dream happens to be your brother-in-law?

Three sisters - Rose (30), Danielle (28) and Monica (25) - who couldn't be more...

Itzehoe in northernmost Germany, in the year 1396. By the time Hinrik vom Diek lifts his head out of a pool of beer, the fateful document has already been signed. The Count ...

A serial killer has the citizens of Rome in a panic. The victims of the gruesome crimes are young men, their corpses arranged as re-creations of the Stations of the Cross...

In his cleverly constructed debut thriller Arno Strobel takes us back to the time immediately after the events of 1945. While bombed-out Europe is being rebuilt, a few...

South Carolina, 1781. Antonia Lorimer is a young widow living alone on her plantation, Legacy, which has been devastated over the course of the American War of Independence....

A class reunion after thirty years.

The murder of a woman.

A crime that has gone unpunished for decades.

A hot...

David McGregor's life has undergone a radical change: the former investment banker lost his fortune playing the stock exchange and has reinvented himself as a ...

Undine Busch is a capable young woman, but she seems to have no luck in love. Until one fine day, Christian walks into her life. Undine is certain the minute she sets eyes on...

If buildings could talk… One century, two families, and a house in the heart of Berlin packed with history 

Elsa, the daughter of a shop assistant, ...

The matriarchal head of the family has just been laid to rest at the ripe old age of 95, and the family is gathered at a restaurant to see her off - it is one of the rare...

Are you living to dream or dreaming to live ? 

Rita and Charline-Elke are both in their mid-thirties but that's about all they have in common....

Florian Baumgartner is commissioned to write a feature article on his childhood friend, the well-known and controversial filmmaker David Mosbach. Rather reluctant, Florian ...