"We'll be able to do it with our hands tied behind our backs!" It's just as well that Ines isn't easily daunted, because if it weren't for her little sister, Christine would be feeling pretty queasy. Her friend Marleen has begged her to take over the running of her little guesthouse on a North ...

The new bestseller by Dora Heldt !

46-year old Christine is waiting for her boyfriend at the train station, full of anticipation - she's spending her holiday on her native island of Sylt. But things have already started going wrong: the woman with the red hat ...

In July 1904 a big ocean liner is docked in Antwerp, ready to start its journey to New York. While people come and go on the ship, a lady in a white evening dress is able to board the ship unnoticed. Not quite unnoticed, however - due to her fabulous dress and her beauty, some people do ...

Actually it was meant to be a relaxing working holiday: Christine (45) and Dorothea (40) were going to spend a few days on a Northsea island, helping a friend renovate her pub. But then Christine is compelled by her mother to take her father along. And they've barely set foot on the island when ...

Jochen, Oliver, Bill - almost half of the human race is composed of men. They still set the tone for many issues, even though their facade started to crack a long time ago. Enough of a reason to look more closely. What facets characterize the other gender? With a woman's eyes, Johanna Adorján ...

Three eras, three women, three fates
Set in the Silesian town of Gleiwitz, the stories of Martha, Maria, and Magda trace the history of this border region: following the Germans, Poles, and Czechs, Christians and Jews, who loved and hated each other, were expelled and whose ...

Berlin, 1928: The Lichtenstein is more brilliant than ever and can hold its own against the big
department stores. But the world wide economic crisis abruptly clips the wings of the highflying
business. For the friends Hedi, Thea and Ella, happiness and sorrow are also bound
too ...

The sequel of the SPIEGEL bestseller Three Women at the Lake

"What's the deal with these letters?"
"They're the invitations for Julie, Alexandra and Friederike to come to the lake for Pentecost weekend…"
A deep rift separated the three childhood friends for years. It ...

Three women, three lives.

It's too late for reconciliation: for ten years Maja Sternberg has had no contact with her mother Lilli - and now Lilli is dead. The police in Vienna suspect suicide, but Maja doesn't want to believe it. In her mother's flat, she finds Lilli's birth ...

The mystery of the enigmatic Isdal Woman When the writer Eva accidentally comes across a identikit picture in a newspaper, her life is suddenly thrown off course. It is the image of a woman who died violently in Bergen, Norway, in November 1970, and whose identity was never determined. But ...

The secret of Stone Abbey

After her mother's death, Nina Altmann, a 24-year-old concert pianist, inherits Stone Abby, a wildly romantic estate in the heart of England. However, her inheritance is tied to a specific commission: Nina is instructed to prove the innocence of her ...

1913. In the heart of Berlin, Lichtenstein's offers a wide assortment of items, mainly in the category of respectable women's clothing. The small department store is a diverse microcosm in which the paths of vastly different people cross. Shop girl Hedi plunges into the world of fashion, while ...