Fiction

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...

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...

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...

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...

»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...

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...