Come in and burn out

In his mid-thirties, Jakob is a marketing expert and an incorrigible workaholic - a classic candidate for burnout. A Slow Movement center in a sleepy coastal village in Spain seems to be just the ticket for him - at least, that is what his sister thinks. ...

On the remote, wind-tossed Normandy island of Chausey, a couple discovers a message in a bottle on the beach. It contains a list of five names, including that of the man who just found it. He dies on the return trip to the mainland. A short time later, the second man on the list is found dead. ...

Experience Normandy's dark side with Benjamin Cors

Fear has settled across Vieux-Port. The town's residents are terrified of an old curse that predicts they will all die in a flooding of the Seine. When the first victim dies, the mayor asks for Nicolas Guerlain's help ...

BODYGUARD: the word that a dying man attempts to scratch into the ground with the last of his strength. A word that leads to Nicolas Guerlain, a bodyguard employed by the French government. Nicolas realizes that a connection exists to the festivities at Normandy on June 6, the memorial day for ...

A wildly adventurous journey through the City of Love
Paul adores being in control. Stains make him nervous, and he has absolutely no tolerance for bad manners. His life and his relationship with Annika would be running along an extremely straight track - if it weren't for her ...

A nobleman with ties to the French government receives three murder threats in less than a week. Nicolas Guerlain's new contract once again takes him back to Normandy. However, before he can even meet his new protectee, he stumbles across a corpse. A lifeless figure is dangling from the Pont de ...

A sensitive, humorous portrait of a remarkable woman. Subtly and unpretentiously, Claretta Cerio describes her childhood and teenage years between 1927 and 1945, which she spent divided between two vastly different island worlds. On the one hand, Capri is her mother's home, and it is here that ...

Maths and physics student Lenny has decided to propose to his girlfriend Zoe on their holiday in the South of France. But then the ring falls into the pool just as he is offering it to her! When Zoe appears supremely unmoved by Lenny's proposal and his gift despite the huge effort involved in ...

The setting is the Cannes Film Festival; young bodyguard Nicholas Guerlain is supposed to be looking after a French minister but accidentally knocks him to the red carpet when his attention is distracted by a familiar figure in the cheering crowd - is that not Julie, his long-lost love who ...

Nils, 27, lives for his drum kit and his rock band, getting by as a hearing-aid dispenser's assistant while he waits for his big break. In the meantime, his relationship is in a state of crisis. Charlotte loves her job as a midwife, her chipmunk Maya-and of course Nils-but ...

Thirty-two year old Florian dangles a baited hook in the waters of a Cologne daily paper's lonely hearts section. He owns a chaotically untidy flat and a motorbike he hasn't paid off yet, he's got an irritating mother and two really close friends. So what's missing? A ...

A masterful analysis of the founding of the German state and the ambiguities of the Empire

On January 18, 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the King of Prussia was crowned the Kaiser of Germany, and the German Empire was born. Over the following years, the ...