Cay Rademacher Books in Order

In the freezing ruins of British-occupied Hamburg in 1947, police investigator Frank Stave hunts a killer. Worry for his missing son and the city's hunger, displacement, and black market complicate an already desperate investigation.

When a boy's body is found in a ruined Hamburg shipyard, Frank Stave investigates gangs of orphaned refugees. Further deaths intensify the case while the detective struggles to hold his troubled personal life together.

After surviving a shooting, Frank Stave transfers to Hamburg's black-market division. A corpse discovered beside Weimar-era artworks and the appearance of mysterious banknotes draw him into connected investigations as the Allies prepare a currency reform.

Transferred from Paris after an inconveniently successful corruption investigation, Roger Blanc settles unhappily in Provence. A burned murder victim and a second suspicious death force him to uncover the countryside's hidden rivalries while his marriage collapses.

A fighting bull kills a cyclist in the Camargue, but Roger Blanc suspects deliberate interference. The victim's unfinished journalism leads him toward a notorious unsolved burglary and an older story that locals would rather forget.