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A Death in Denmark by Amulya Malladi

4 April, 2023

It’s not often crime fiction lovers will come across a Kierkegaard quoting, sharply dressed detective who is also a jazz musician. However, that’s just what we get in Gabriel Praest, an ex-cop from Copenhagen who provides a promising start to Amulya Malladi’s new series. Gabriel…

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Force of Hate by Graham Bartlett

By Paul Burke

21 March, 2023

Graham Bartlett’s debut novel Bad for Good gave us a fictional Brighton very different from that of Peter James’ in the Roy Grace novels – grimier, the politics a lot nastier. This corrupt and corroding cityscape is even more evident in his second police procedural,…

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Göering’s Gold by Richard O’Rawe

By Paul Burke

1 June, 2022

This wry caper from Irish author Richard O’Rawe proves that an old fashioned adventure story, well told, can still grip and thrill us. Göering’s Gold is essentially a treasure hunt – funny and dark by turns, its sharp pacing and clever twists are very appealing….

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Mammon in Malmö by Torquil MacLeod

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 July, 2021

Ex-police detective Anita Sundström is back in the eighth of Torquil MacLeod’s Malmö Mysteries series. It’s been a year since Anita resigned from the Skåne County Police and her current job at the Malmö’s tourism office lacks the excitement she thrived on as a police investigator…

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The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 August, 2020

Ben Pastor’s political thrillers take you inside the Third Reich with her protagonist, Wehrmacht colonel Baron Martin von Bora. Bora served in the Abwehr (German military intelligence) until that unit was disbanded in favour of the SS, Gestapo and other agencies. The Abwehr connection taints…

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Corpus

By Mal McEwan

29 January, 2017

Written by Rory Clements — It is 1936 Berlin and Nancy Hereward is a privileged young woman with left wing ideals who is dodging Nazis to deliver papers to a Jewish scientist. Nancy has a predilection for morphine and a few months later is found dead…

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The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

By DavidPrestidge

8 April, 2016

Ex-cop Bernie Gunther feels life has come full circle. In his younger days, between spells with Berlin’s Kriminalpolizei, he was the house detective for the city’s celebrated Adlon Hotel. Then came World War II and Gunther’s nimble foxtrot around Nazi Germany where he worked for the likes…

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The Fourth Reich by Helen Goltz

By nagaisayonara

3 February, 2015

The 70th anniversary of the liberation Auschwitz last week proved that the Holocaust is never far from our minds. Writers of fiction and non-fiction look for ways to understand what drove supposedly civilised people to commit genocide. Helen Goltz’s book is one that examines what…

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A Death in Denmark by Amulya Malladi

Force of Hate by Graham Bartlett

Göering’s Gold by Richard O’Rawe

Mammon in Malmö by Torquil MacLeod

The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor

Corpus

The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

The Fourth Reich by Helen Goltz

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