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Berlin Burning by Damien Seaman

At the end of last year, Blasted Heath published Seaman’s debut novel, The Killing of Emma Gross, which introduced his Weimar Republic detectives Trautmann and Roth in a fictionalised retelling of the true crime mystery of the Vampire of Dusseldorf. It isn’t necessary to have…
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NTN: Until the Debt is Paid

Written by Alexander Hartung, translated by Steve Anderson — Until the Debt is Paid was Alexander Hartung’s second novel in German, and the first to feature his Berlin detective Jan Tommen. After a weekend of hard drinking, Tommen wakes up with the mother of all…
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Fritz Lang's M resurrected by BFI

One of the earliest and best psychological crime films – Fritz Lang’s M – is to be screened around the UK and Ireland starting early September. The British Film Institute is releasing a newly restored version of the German movie, promising pin-sharp picture quality and…
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Then We Take Berlin by John Lawton

Having already penned seven Inspector Troy novels the author, director and screenwriter John Lawton’s latest offering is a thriller that is sure to have any fan of John Le Carré’s Smiley novels gripped. The book opens in Berlin in 1963, where the authorities are busy…
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Sorry

Written by Zoran Drvenkar — Here at Crime Fiction Lover we love the break-out popularity of European crime, whether it’s the stone cold thrillers of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson, or the hit Danish TV series The Killing. What’s more, we know how popular it…
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Sorry

No, we’re not apologising for anything. We just wanted to tell you about the upcoming book by German author Zoran Drvenkar which is entitled Sorry. It’s already a bestseller in Germany and has won the 2011 Friedrich Glauser Prize, the top award in German language…
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