Tabor Süden started out as a policeman before moving into private detective work, becoming an experienced specialist in missing persons cases. What he really wanted was to walk away forever from investigative work after the last case in which one of his colleagues lost his life.
Süden plans to leave Munich with no goodbyes. However, when his boss catches him at the railway station,...
Police officer Kay Oleander was hit in the face with a beer bottle during a demonstration and lost his left eye as a result. Released from active duty, he struggles to get through the day – until fate leads him to Silvia Glaser. She, too, has been disabled ever since a bicycle accident. Unexpectedly, the two find support in each other – despite the fact that she is suspected of...
Happiness is extinguished completely when 11-year-old Lennard Grabbe doesn’t come home one night during the cold November days in Munich. 34 days later, he is found the victim of a murderer....
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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German Radio Drama (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
Seventeen-year-old Finja Madsen fails to come home after a party one night. There are no witnesses, no clues as to what happened to her. The investigation is at a dead end. Inspector Fariza Nasri interviews family and friends of the missing girl, including her mother’s boyfriend Stephan Barig. The party was at his house while he spent the weekend in the countryside with two friends. Barig...
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In Friedrich Ani’s new novel, »the four« must spring into action: Polonius Fischer (the former monk), Tabor Süden (the returned missing person’s investigator), Jakob Franck (the former inspector, now retired, but still the deliverer of the worst news) and Fariza Nasri (the detective with Syrian roots, saved from her banishment to the provinces). All of them must...
At the age of fourteen, a boy flees from the southern German village of Heiligsheim. Forty years later, he returns under the name of Ludwig »Luggi« Dragomir. The tough times he has had to...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Plataforma)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Plataforma)
Germany in the near future. The coasts are flooded, large parts of the country are depopulated and nature is reclaiming deserted communities. Berlin is nothing but a backdrop for tourists....
Russia (Gorodets), Norway (Olivia Forlag), Finland (Huippu), Latvia (SIA Pētergailis)
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London, in the not too distant future: A drug dealer is floating down the Thames – dead. A protection racketeer disappears without a trace. And Ellie Johnson is certain that she is...
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In the heart of London, documentary filmmaker Niall witnesses a bestial attack on a young man, committed by jihadists. As he investigates the background of this act for a reportage, he gets caught up in a maelstrom of fear and violence, fuelled by political machinations and the media. He has no idea how much his life is interwoven with the terrorist act until it unravels...
Italy (Corbaccio)
In Hamburg cars are burning. Set alight at random every night. But one night on the Mexico Ring, a ghetto of office high-rises to the north of the city, a person is still in his Fiat as it starts...
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Chastity Riley is chasing a madman. Or at least that’s what it seems like. Because who else would lock high-ranking executives in a cage in the middle of Hamburg? And so Chastity...
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Due to an unfortunate incident where she convicted a...
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A chilly hotel bar in the Port of Hamburg. Down on the docks, the lights are shimmering, above the tables are rather sparsely occupied. Suddenly the doors open, twelve heavily armed men...
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Summer in Hamburg, it’s far too hot, but Sankt Pauli is glowing – when suddenly, a few extra feet are found floating in the Elbe. Men’s feet, to be precise, and there’s not a single trace of the bodies that go with them. Bit by bit, more body parts appear, neatly separated and well packaged. CID chief Calabretta is away on holiday in Italy, and his predecessor Faller,...
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A moving novel about the highly dramatic life of a young mother who is befallen by many strokes of fate – until she is forced to send her children away and work as a German spy during World War I.
Florence was very young when she was married to a priest who enforces strict rules in his home. When she seeks comfort and refuge with another man, her husband...
A picturesque village in the Provence, not far from Grasse, the world capital of perfume. But Julia isn’t here to enjoy the beauty of the landscape: her life is falling apart, and she has...
Georgia (Ibis)
Alwy is newly in love, the smart-looking lawyer Leon is her dream man. And it’s looking promising in her job, too. Life could be glorious – if the young patissière didn’t have to fear for her...
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On April 17, 2021, Elizabeth II had to say goodbye to Prince Philip at St George’s Chapel in Windsor. The Duke of Edinburgh had been her rock for more than seventy years. The morning after the funeral, she flips through her diaries and reviews her eventful life. With the pictures of her grandchildren in front of her, she recalls her own childhood, the preparations for her future role as...
Bookseller Emma travels to London to be close to her deceased parents one more time, because that’s where they had met and fallen in love.
Already on the first day she meets the personable widow Ava. The two women become friends and Ava makes Emma the tempting offer of updating the library in her estate on the Island of Roses in Cornwall. Excitedly, Emma...
Patsy Logan, 38, German-Irish detective chief inspector with the State Office of Criminal Investigations in Munich, is investigating a renowned online company. The case quickly attracts...
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A drowned Irish man is fished out of the Schwabinger Bach – a stream in the English Garden in Munich. There is no evidential material, but motives galore. Not the ideal starting position...
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Munich 1920. Inspector Reitmeyer has returned from the war and is trying to hide the traumata incurred there from his surroundings, muffling the panic attacks by playing the violin, despite the fact that the police has their work cut out for them: food shortages and inflation have lead to a wave of thefts sweeping the city and to thriving business for black-marketeers and...
Investigations in two murder cases lead the unflappable Munich-based Inspector Reitmeyer into the circles of Russian Monarchists in exile who had settled in the city after the October Revolution. And it is these very circles that his best friend, lawyer Sepp Leitner, has his eye out for the daughter of a distinguished Russian nobleman, to top up his salary. But what does the...
A young woman is caught in the clutches of terrorism and is sent on a risky mission. Chased by the BKA, the Federal Criminal Police Office, and put under pressure by her comrades, she is...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Atmosphere libri)
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Berlin is boiling hot in the first summer after the pandemic. The tourists are back in Party City, there are excessive parties everywhere, people are enjoying the time after the lockdown. Good business for Tom Lohoff, the facilitator, who has apartments, all kinds of drugs, sex and access to top clubs on offer for the party crowd from all over the world. And he has large gambling debts with a...
As an online-editor for a large daily newspaper, Walter Noack is in charge of eliminating rude remarks and hate speech from various comment sections. He is confronted with the most odious insults a thousand times a day. His nerves become even more frayed after he and subsequently a colleague are beaten seemingly at random by strangers, and his private life is shaken by loss.
The police...Miri is newly single. Together with her best friend Katja, she set out to realise her lifelong dream of opening her own bookshop. They find just the place for it: an old barge in Hamburg harbour. With passion and dedication, the two friends convert the battered barge into a book ship. Miri’s private life is also on the up and up, and she could imagine more than just friendly small talk...
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»Lady in her prime seeks cavalier to drive her to the nudist beach. Payment guaranteed.« – An ad in the local newspaper sets the ball rolling: Hedy von Pyritz, 88 years old, disciplined, sharp-tongued, vain. Keen mind, dry humour, at times offensive. An old lady, who usually sits in a wheelchair, causes a substantial scandal in the small town in the region of Münster, where she resides in...
No job, no boyfriend, no prospects – it’s not with a rosy outlook on life that Romy arrives in her native village in the proverbial middle of nowhere.
Being a failed actress, and...
Turkey (Pegasus)
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A sailing boat in the storm, the sailors’ fight against the waves warily watched by the inhabitants of a small island in the Baltic Sea. Just another pair of inexperienced landlubbers that were clueless enough to venture out to sea during a storm like this! They have no idea that their tightly-knit group is about to be stirred up by the pair that is about to be shipwrecked on their...
A research assignment on a long-forgotten poet brings young German philologist Julia Völcker to a small island in the Baltic Sea. On first glance: the perfect idyll! But here, other rules apply than on the big city on the mainland – as Julia soon experiences first hand.
The islanders form a committed and taciturn group and the newcomer is met with a great deal of...
»I will show Your Illustrious Lordship what a woman can do.« Artemisia Gentileschi
She was a star – and she was notorious. Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1593 in Rome, garnered attention in her early years for her talent as a painter. At 17, she suffered her first dramatic stroke of fate when she was raped by her teacher, forced to marry after a high-profile court case, and then had...
Gianna is young, vivacious and ambitious – and she is determined to become a chef. And to be one of the best. Where better to learn the ropes than with those Michelin-starred chefs? Thus her journey leads her from her hometown of Regensburg, via Copenhagen and Navarra, all the way to New Mexico. At four enthralling locations, she learns not only an array of cooking styles from famous and...
Apartment clearance and tabula rasa, fire or impulse sale – what drives people to sell their things for small change via classifieds? In all seriousness, with an intention to buy, Sarah Khan met numerous people who advertised and listened carefully when they started to recount their life stories – and created literature from oral history. The outcome is a series of stories about...
Saad and his daughter Leila are living under the radar in Berlin. Saad earns his living as a security guard at a car park, working the night shift for good reason. This car park also houses the...
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Argon)
The 1960s have started and with them the Age of Aquarius. Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death in Tel Aviv. Konrad Adenauer agrees on military aid for Israel. At the same time, however, German aeronautical engineers, engine builders and rocket scientists are drawn to Egypt in great numbers.
Rita Hellberg, daughter of an engineer, just wants to visit her parents in...
Two tough sisters, a faked suicide and a text message from the grave – once more, things turn tumultuous in Konny and Kriemhild’s newest case
During the funeral of a...
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audible)
Konny and Kriemhild, both over sixty, are running – rather unsuccessfully – a bed & breakfast in the countryside. One day, the idyll is disturbed by murder – and the sisters turn out to be...
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Konny and Kriemhild see the most powerful man of their village kill a woman. Realising he’s been made, he intends to get rid of Kriemhild. But Kriemhild survives and decides to fake her own death...
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Three strangers demolish Konny and Kriemhild’s bed & breakfast and demand that the sisters hand over the millions that the Commodore, Kriemhild’s deceased husband, owes them. Did the...
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English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Malpaso), Italy (Keller Editore), Bulgaria (Aviana)
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Sometimes, it just hits you and you don’t even know why. That’s when life seems nothing but chaotic, devastating and confusing. Fighting this, however, is profoundly pointless – and anything but funny. If, yet again, you’ve rushed into one of those crises at full throttle and can’t find your way out, you should take a look at The Little ABC of Survival. From »Age« to »Work«, from...
»Jimi the Polar Bear was lying in the arms of the sleeping child, his paws crossed. It was 1 very young polar pear the size of a puppy and he hardly dared to breathe so as not to wake the child. The child was dreaming that Jimi was lying in its arms and told him 1 story.«
Thus begins the short poetic story of Jimi the Polar Bear and the child Emma, told by the great Austrian poet...
A small bookshop in London’s Mayfair borough. Mrs. Annetta Robington finds herself completely absorbed in a fascinating book about penguins and has lost track of time. Just as she is about to leave the bookshop, she makes a sudden, incredible discovery: the shop owner is a penguin! The elderly gentleman denies it at first, but then admits to it: yes, he is a penguin – one of many...
In her previous life, Jenny Aaron was a police detective of exceptional physical ability and belonged to a group of distinguished policemen, a special task force so secret and elite that...
English world rights (Head of Zeus; US/Canada sublicense: Dover, UK large print & audio sublicense: WF Howes), Spanish world rights (Penguin Random House / Suma, Spanish bookclub sublicense: Círculo de Lectores), Arabic World rights (Dar Oktob), France (Fleuve, French bookclub sublicense: Le Grand Livre du Mois), Italy (Emons), Netherlands (Xander), Poland (Otwarte; Polish audiobook sublicense: Biblioteka Akustyczna), Czech Republic (Euromedia), Turkey (Salon), Greece (Metaichmio)
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Blind Special Agent Jenny Aaron pins all her hopes on a therapy that is meant to give her back her eyesight. But the men who died for her last winter won’t let go of...
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The winter of 1983. The preparations for the most spectacular spy swap in history on the Glienicke Bridge, the »Bridge of Spies«, have been completed. KGB officer Rem Kukura –...
Domestic rights sales: German Audiobook (Random House Audio), German Book Club (Büchergilde Gutenberg)
A seemingly hopeless fight against a power-hungry cartel – perfectly choreographed and thrilling until the end. An explosive thriller with an elegantly woven plot filled with insider...
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audible)
Imagine inheriting 2 billion Dollars. From your mortal enemy.
Police officer Jenny Aaron, blinded during a failed mission in Barcelona years ago, has escaped death only...
English world rights (Head of Zeus; US/Canada sublicense: Dover), Netherlands (Xander), Czech Republic (Euromedia)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Random House Audio)
Two missing women return at the same time after three weeks – one of them in Berlin, the other in Vienna. For both of them, only days seem to have passed since their disappearance. Even more...
German Audiobook (Thalia)
When Elisabeth Petznek dies in Vienna in 1963, the fierce Alsatians in her bed also come to rest. She has just reached the age of 80. Hotheaded, vulnerable, unrestrained, open-hearted, blunt and headstrong. A woman who fit neither the roles intended for her nor those she willed for herself her entire life.
On the occasion of her birth in 1883, she was celebrated...