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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA City of Broken Glass
Rebecca Cantrell · 351 pages
In Rebecca Cantrell's A City of Broken Glass, journalist Hannah Vogel is in Poland with her son Anton to cover the 1938 St. Martin festival when she hears that 12,000 Polish Jews have been deported from Germany. Hannah drops everything to get the story on the refugees, and walks directly into danger. Kidnapped by the SS, and driven across the German border, Hannah is rescued by Anton and her lo
The Company of Strangers
Robert Wilson · 464 pages
Lisbon 1944. In the torrid summer heat, as the streets of the capital seethe with spies and informers, the endgame of the Intelligence war is being silently fought.Andrea Aspinall, mathematician and spy, enters this sophisticated world through a wealthy household in Estoril. Karl Voss, military attache to the German Legation, has arrived embittered by his implication in the murder of a Reichsminis
Stettin Station
David Downing · 374 pages
It is November 1941. John Russell is still living in Berlin, still enabled to stay by the American passport inherited from his mother, and still tied to the increasingly dangerous city by his love for two Berliners: his thirteen-year-old son, Paul, and his actress girlfriend, Effi. Now one of a small and dwindling handful of permitted and much-censored American journalists, Russell has begun to he
The Red Moth
Sam Eastland · 380 pages
As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger is the seemingly inconsequential painting of a hyalophoria cecropia, otherwise known as a red moth.
Blood of Victory
Alan Furst · 352 pages
A panoramic novel, moving between Istanbul, Bucharest, Paris, Sofia and the Black Sea coast, involving Turkish secret police, Russian chekists, French aristocrats, Romanian millionaires, Polish exiles and British spies.
SS-GB
Len Deighton · 402 pages
For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it's 'business as usual' at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself
December 6
Martin Cruz Smith · 383 pages
Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings. Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistre
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane · 392 pages
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
A Presumption of Death
Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L. Sayers · 384 pages
Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set during the Blitz in 1940 London finds Lord Peter conducting secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet, caring for the family, is shocked by the murder of a young Land Girl.
Declare
Tim Powers · 528 pages
As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmarethat has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the
Orders from Berlin
Simon Tolkien · 354 pages
A tale set in 1940 London marks the beginning of Detective Bill Trave's career and follows his investigation into an MI6 former chief's murder, which is linked to an assassination plot against Churchill.
Every Secret Thing
Emma Cole, Susanna Kearsley · 437 pages
A moving love story and a thrilling story of the quest to uncover a hushed-up murder, moving between present-day London and Canada and the dangerous, double-crossing streets of war-time Lisbon. Journalist Kate Murray brushes aside the old man who attempts to tell her the story of a murder that has not been brought to justice - until he mentions her beloved grandmother. Before she can reply, he wal
The Dead of Winter
Rennie Airth · 408 pages
The murder of a young Polish girl in wartime London puts John Madden on the trail of a ruthless hired killerOn a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. The police suspect she was the victim of a random act of violence and might have dropped the case if former police investigator John Madden hadn’t been the victim’s employer.Madden’s old colleagues at Scot
The Death Instinct
Jed Rubenfeld · 500 pages
New York, 1920. The streets of Manhattan teem with seething resentments and inarticulate passions. Wall Street explodes-- literally. It is the most destructive and deadly terrorist attack ever committed on US soil. Three people caught in the blast are led on a harrowing journey from Paris to Prague, unraveling secrets and the shocking truth behind the terror in Wall Street.
The Gangster
Clive Cussler, Justin Scott · 416 pages
"It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special 'Black Hand Squad,' but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin,
No Graves As Yet
Anne Perry · 360 pages
NO GRAVES AS YET is the utterly compelling first of a five-novel sequence that is a searing, ambitious and masterly portrait of England through the First World War.