Books set in Hamburg, Germany

Germany’s great port on the Elbe: a young man walking the ruins of 1947, past a Nazi doctor never brought to trial.

1 place, 2 books,

2023
Hors d’atteinte
2023 · Frédéric Couderc · novel
1947: a young man walks his bombed-out Hamburg, and crosses the path of a Nazi doctor.
2016
Blue Night
Nuit bleue
2016 · Simone Buchholz · crimeSt Pauli, Hamburg
Prosecutor Chastity Riley and a crystal-meth deal in Hamburg’s St Pauli.

Updated October 2026