In Episode 7 we welcome award-winning author David Young who has written the Stasi Child – Karin Müller series of crime thrillers set in East Germany in the mid 1970s.
The series begins in 1975 with Stasi Child, David’s critically-acclaimed debut which was an official Top Twenty paperback bestseller in The Bookseller, won the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger for best historical crime novel of 2016, and was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
The second in the series, Stasi Wolf, was published in e-book and paperback in February 2017 and A Darker State was released this year in the UK. Two more novels are under contract, making five in all.
Shortlist’s review of Stasi Child reads “Can’t get enough cold-war Germany after Deutschland 83? This is your latest reading companion”
And The Australian wrote “If you are a fan of Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series, this will appeal. Though it’s stylistically more sober than Kerr’s noirish novels, the Berlin background is just as authentically realized. “
I’m delighted to say I’ve read and enjoyed them all!
Links
Anna Maxwell Martin – David choice for the TV role of Karin Muller
Music
The Candy Twins – David’s passport to Eastern Germany
Tender Objects – Here Comes the Rain – David’s second band
Books
TV & Films
Weissensee – Stasi Family drama
Polizeiruf 110 GDR Police drama TV Series – The Sweeny GDR style!
Barbara – Film depicting a doctor in the GDR who has applied to leave.
