True Crime Germany

In 2019, Adrian Langenscheid's debut book, True Crime Deutschland, was published and rose from nowhere to the top of the winner's podium in the genre-relevant categories. Almost 2 years and 6 books later, Langenscheid is one of the best-known true crime authors in Germany. For the seventh work in his successful series, the bestselling author once again researched some of the most spectacular German criminal cases of recent decades.

Kaltblütige Morde, eine tragische Entführung und ein aufsehenerregender Raub - echte Kriminalfälle aus dem wahren Leben. True Crime berührt uns, weil unter dieser Bezeichnung authentische Verbrechen von nebenan geschildert werden. Vielleicht sogar aus unserer unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft. Selbst Polizisten, Richter, Staatsanwälte und Strafverteidiger lässt es nicht kalt, wenn Angeklagte wegen besonders grausamer Taten vor Gericht stehen und die erschütternden Schicksale der Opfer und ihrer Angehörigen nach und nach ans Licht kommen.

The Mafia at War reconstructs the relationships between the Mafia and Allied intelligence organizations.

Discover how Jewish gangsters clashed with Nazis on the streets of New York; how Mafiosi nearly issued contracts to kill top Nazis, including Hitler; how Mafia-backed bandits conducted a guerrilla war for Sicilian independence; and how Eisenhower was happy to arm the Mafia during the Allied invasion of Sicily.

From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847.