Cologne crime thriller

Köln-Krimi, volumes 1–32 from Emons Verlag

The Cologne crime thriller is a local branch of crime fiction , the settings of which are in the city of Cologne and the surrounding area and whose protagonists represent the people of the Rhineland to varying degrees. The background to the action is often provided by current events, political developments or special characteristics of the Rhenish way of life, such as the Cologne clique . In addition to real existing locations, e.g. B. public places or restaurants, fictitious addresses of crime scenes or companies relevant to the plot occur. For those who know Cologne there is still a high recognition value .

The acting persons are usually fictional, but a special attraction arises when real persons can be recognized behind fictional names.

In addition to the regional crime series published by Cologne-based Emons Verlag under the title Köln Krimi , which now comprises more than 60 volumes, other publishers, some in smaller series, are also devoting themselves to the crime scene of Cologne.

Cologne crime novels from Emons Verlag

This crime series has published the works of established authors as well as newcomers since 1985. Some of the editions are first literary works . The following volumes are available:

Cologne crime no.	appearance year	author	title	content	ISBN
1	1985 2002 > N	Christoph Gottwald D.	Deadly clique	The bon vivant Manni Thielen gets into a lot of trouble with a job as a temporary detective . First you want to accuse him of murder , then his old beetle has to believe in it and he himself only barely escapes an attack. When he finally wants to close a deal with his client, the end comes from an unexpected side.	ISBN 3-924491-01-1
2	1985	Frank Schauhoff	Three times zero is zero	Jupp and Tom, owners of a small Cologne publishing house , are leaked a manuscript for a novel in which the corrupt interrelationships between authorities , waste disposal companies and the chemical industry are discussed. The attempt at a preprint by the Cologne Revue ends for its editor- in- chief in the hospital and the publisher is threatened with the end a little later.	ISBN 3-924491-03-8
3	1986	Christoph Gottwald	Pizza for life	This time appears Manni (See Cologne Crime 1) to Cologne dealer scene one to help his friend Paolo Sandini, whose father because of an attempted murder in custody sits. Manni cleverly delivers a murderer to the police, helps some petty criminals to realize their dream of India , achieves the release of father Sandini and he also gets a pretty penny and a wife for himself.	ISBN 3-924491-07-0
4th	1988	Uli Tobinsky D	Yellow Cab	A cowboy from Cologne is investigating.	ISBN 3-924491-10-0
5	1989	Frank Grützbach	The black money eater		ISBN 3-924491-16-X
6th	1989	Rüdiger Jungbluth D	Death in the south of the city	The painter Blankenberg and the tax advisor Cortier investigate the death of their favorite bar.	ISBN 3-924491-26-7
7th	1991	Peter Meisenberg	Schmahl	Crime fan Horst and the petty criminal Schmahl carry out several amateur robberies in order to get money. The corrupt police officer Zöller observes them. With his knowledge, he forces her to take part in a coup that is a size too big for her. But Schmahl is tricking them all - he thinks.	ISBN 3-924491-31-3
8th	1992 2002 N	Rolf Hülsebusch D.	100 nights ransom		ISBN 3-924491-36-4
9	1993	Ralf Günther D.	Camels	Intrigues about the throwing material and an Italian prince in the Cologne triumvirate .	ISBN 3-924491-39-9
10	1994	Christoph Gottwald	Marie Marie	After his best friend, the innkeeper Charly, was blown up with his car, Manni (see Cologne crime novels 1 and 3) finds a number of modern handguns in a shared hiding place from his youth , which he sells to an underworld boss. But then Manni's five-year-old daughter Marie is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand the surrender of the weapons. Manni realizes too late that someone is playing the wrong way with him.	ISBN 3-924491-46-1
11	1995	Peter Meisenberg	Sharks	Machinations to build a super ice hockey hall for the KEC .	ISBN 3-924491-66-6
12	1996 2003-06 N	Frank Schätzing	Hunger for murder	A thriller with recipes and restaurant recommendations.	ISBN 3-924491-71-2 ISBN 3-89705-482-5
13	1997 2003 N	Frank Schätzing	The dark side	Murder against the backdrop of the second Gulf War .	ISBN 3-924491-85-2 ISBN 3-89705-111-7
14th	1998	Hans-Josef Walterscheid	Tutti Frutti	In cold blood, the “ wholesale market godfather” lets his Albanian competitors in the heroin trade get out of the way. Sandra Baum, wife of a wholesaler who got into financial difficulties, ends up in the hands of the hit man while trying to help her husband get a bank loan.	ISBN 3-89705-112-5
15th	1998 2001 N	Peter Meisenberg	Passion	The bizarre types of a daily soap production meet in an erotically charged atmosphere . The main characters fall victim to a series of murders.	ISBN 3-89705-125-7
16	1999	Brigitte Tietzel	Murder if bought	A curator of the Cologne Museum of Applied Arts is investigating on her own in the case of the murder of a museum visitor who has recognized a piece from an old family property in a newly acquired exhibit.	ISBN 3-89705-142-7
17th	1999	Peter Beckers	Art murder		ISBN 3-89705-144-3
18th	2000	Martin Schüller E.	jazz	The hunt for a saxophone takes jazz club owner Jan Richter not only from Cologne to Lisbon , but also far back into the past. Set to music as a radio play by WDR under the title Bird's Bird.	ISBN 3-89705-166-4
19th	2000	Frank Schätzing	Silent	A murder plot against the US President at the Cologne World Economic Summit in 1999.	ISBN 3-89705-185-0
20th	2000	MAF Räderscheidt and Stephan Everling	Midnight mosaic		ISBN 3-89705-187-7
21st	2001	Martin Schüller 4th place in the German Crime Prize 2001	killer	A professional killer is confronted by a mysterious assignment with the repressed secrets of his past.	ISBN 3-89705-206-7
22nd	2003	Stefan Winges E nominated for the Glauser	Honolulu baby		ISBN 3-89705-256-3
23	2003	Brigitte Glaser	Funeral feast	The cook Katharina Schweitzer gets caught in a culinary criminal case.	ISBN 3-89705-292-X
24	2003	Dorothea Müller	In the shadow of betrayal		ISBN 3-89705-308-X
25th	2004	Martin Schüller	Long dead	Update of Schüller's first JAZZ. Club owner Jan Richter returns to Cologne from Lisbon to organize a concert with a legendary sextet. But one of the musicians died in a mysterious way. Produced by WDR in 2006 as a radio play.	ISBN 3-89705-325-X
26th	2005	Holger Geyer D.	Sleep well		ISBN 3-89705-364-0
27	2005	Brigitte Glaser	Murder Board	Katharina Schweitzer, now the boss of her own restaurant, is confronted with a series of murders.	ISBN 3-89705-400-0
28	2006	Rolf Hülsebusch	Necropolis Cologne	Cologne city center as the open-air museum of the bombing war is the scene of mysterious murders.	ISBN 3-89705-427-2
29	2006	Helmut Frangenberg	marathon	A serial killer is up to mischief in Cologne - and leaves puzzling numbers on his victims' apartment walls. It soon turns out that the acts are linked to a terrible event in a youth clique from the 1970s. The Cologne Marathon finally comes to a dramatic finale.	ISBN 3-89705-450-7
30th	2006	Hans-Josef Walterscheid	Pfaffengold	The young doctoral student Karen finds a medieval document in the archbishop's archive that suggests a treasure that is buried in a Rodenkirchen chapel. When the paper is stolen from Karen soon afterwards, it is not just the thief who goes in search of the treasure, which ultimately kills two people. Karen is also in mortal danger.	ISBN 3-89705-473-6
31	2007	Myriane Angelowski D	Against the time	Commissioner Lou Vanheyden is looking for the murderer of several decapitated women and uncovered the connections to long-forgotten witch trials .	ISBN 3-89705-486-8
32	2007	Stefan Blankertz	2068	In 2068, Cologne was gripped by unrest among the elderly , who rebelled against their increasing exclusion from society . The figurehead of this movement is, of all people, the twenty-year-old Penelope Heiler, who, however, soon gets caught between the lines when she works with the Guttuer authorities to investigate the circumstances of her ex-lover Edgar's death .	ISBN 978-3-89705-513-1
33	2007	Brigitte Glaser	Ice bomb	Katharina Schweitzer's apprentice Arîn comes under suspicion of murder when a classmate is stabbed to death during her cooking test. At the same time, a corpse cast in concrete is discovered near her restaurant , which almost disrupts the relationship between Katharina's roommate Adela and her partner, the former detective Kuno.	ISBN 978-3-89705-514-8
34	2008	Ingrid Strobl D	Deadly karma	The journalist Katja Leichter befriends the junkie Nele , who was entrusted to her by her brother Paul, a lawyer . When Nele is suspected of murder by her dealer and goes into hiding, Katja pulls out all the stops to find the killer, regardless of danger.	ISBN 978-3-89705-551-3
35	2008	Reinhard Rohn	False hearts	Cologne chief inspector Jan Schiller and his new colleague Birte Jessen, who moved to Cologne police after a stroke of fate from Hamburg, are involved in a series of murders in which the perpetrator leaves a flashing plastic heart at the scene. At the end of the investigation, Schiller is confronted with his own past.	ISBN 978-3-89705-601-5
36	2009	Myriane Angelowski	Deadly will-o'-the-wisp	For Commissioners Lou Vanheyden and Maline Brass, nothing is as it seems, because a web of lies, hatred, affairs and a wall of silence make their work difficult.	ISBN 978-3-89705-632-9
37	2009	Renate Naber and Cornelia Ehses	Time of punishment	A bizarre murder of an old woman brings the experienced criminal investigation officer Peter Brandl and the Porzer pastor Ulla Wolff together. It seems that the victim's past as a guard in a National Socialist youth concentration camp is the key to solving the crime.	ISBN 978-3-89705-676-3
38	2009	Edgar Franzmann	Millions Avenue	Franck von Franckenhorst, eldest son of a traditional Cologne entrepreneurial family, wants to join the management of the perfume producer. When his father thwarted his plans, events precipitate until Franck can only count on the help of a few homeless people.	ISBN 978-3-89705-631-2
39	2010	Reinhard Rohn	Eau de Cologne	A new case for the Cologne police officers Schiller and Jessen around two mysterious twin sisters, in which the former chief inspector Matthias Brasch from the Goldmann series ( see below ) comes to their aid.	ISBN 978-3-89705-722-7
40	2010	Ingrid Strobl D	End of the line trinkets	A new case with the journalist Katja Leichter.	ISBN 978-3-89705-773-9
41	2011	Edgar Franzmann	The judge code	A criminal case embedded in the events during the collapse of the Historical Archives .	ISBN 978-3-89705-830-9
(42)	2011	Reinhard Rohn	Cologne Lights		ISBN 978-3-89705-869-9
(43)	2012	Brigitte Glaser	Heaven and Ääd		ISBN 978-3-89705-933-7
(44)	2012	Reinhard Rohn	Barefoot in Cologne		ISBN 978-3-89705-992-4
(45)	2012	Edgar Franzmann	Adenauer's eye		ISBN 978-3-95451-030-6
(46)	2013	Magdalene Imig	Queen of the Cross		ISBN 978-3-95451-081-8
(47)	2013	Sascha Pranschke	Cologne scenery		ISBN 978-3-95451-100-6
(48)	2013	Myriane Angelowski	Bloodlines		ISBN 978-3-95451-055-9
(49)	2013	Ingrid Strobl	Trivia showdown	A new case with the journalist Katja Leichter.	ISBN 978-3-95451-195-2
(50)	2013	Reinhard Rohn	The judge of Cologne		ISBN 978-3-95451-186-0
(51)	2014	Mathias wishes	Cologne shadow		ISBN 978-3-95451-314-7
(52)	2014	Ulf Kartte	Bird free		ISBN 978-3-95451-272-0
(53)	2014	Kordula cool	Dom terminus		ISBN 978-3-95451-395-6
(54)	2015	Mathias wishes	A little man stands in the forest …		ISBN 978-3-95451-491-5
(55)	2015	Reinhard Rohn	Cologne final		ISBN 978-3-95451-606-3
(56)	2016	Ulf Kartte	samurai		ISBN 978-3-95451-958-3
(57)	2017	Reinhard Rohn	Cologne rings		ISBN 978-3-7408-0205-9
(58)	2018	Hedwig Neven DuMont	Raven hearts		ISBN 978-3-7408-0199-1
(59)	2018	Myriane Angelowski	The dark streets of Cologne		ISBN 978-3-7408-0279-0
(60)	2018	Christoph Gottwald	Melate blonde	After almost twenty-five years, Manni Thielen reappears in Cologne.	ISBN 978-3-7408-0447-3
(61)	2019	Reinhard Rohn	The three dead in Cologne		ISBN 978-3-7408-0525-8
(62)	2019	Kordula cool	Night over the cathedral		ISBN 978-3-7408-0652-1
(63)	2020	Marco Hasenkopf	Cologne 300 ° C		ISBN 978-3-7408-0792-4

Commissioner Löhr

Also published by Emons Verlag, these stories revolve around Commissioner Jakob Löhr, an experienced member of the Cologne criminal police . The family man Löhr is constantly trying to reconcile his current investigative work and the expectations of his extensive Cologne relatives. He often lets his colleague Rudi Esser do the unpopular, because monotonous, routine work.

The author is Peter Meisenberg . He likes to take up real local political or social events and lets his protagonist Löhr influence them in a decisive way.

Commissioner Löhrs ...	appearance year	title	content	ISBN
first case	2000	Black coffers	This thriller about the murder of a cathedral provost and the fraud of millions at the Vicariate General is based on a true story.	ISBN 3-89705-171-0
second case	2001	Löhr and the OB stalemate	Murder of a prostitute . Is the promising candidate for the mayoral elections of the perpetrators?	ISBN 3-89705-205-9
third case	2002	Cardboard noses	Scandal at the festival committee Cologne Carnival : Its vice-president admits to having beaten a prostitute to hospital ripe. But Löhr does not buy this story from him - and he is right about it.	ISBN 3-89705-230-X
fourth case	2003	Garbage money	After an arson attack , Löhr found an ominous list with the names of numerous council members in the vault of a waste recycling company . When he was investigating the owner of the Cologne waste management company, he got to know the power of the Cologne garbage mafia .	ISBN 3-89705-279-2
fifth case	2005	Tuscany Kölsch	Löhr has finally given in to his wife Irmgard's insistence on a vacation together. In Tuscany, of all places , he now receives the crucial information to clarify a death in a traditional Cologne brewery .	ISBN 3-89705-319-5
sixth case	2011	Koelsch Poker		ISBN 978-3-89705-831-6
seventh case	2012	Kölsch plot		ISBN 978-3-89705-935-1
	2015	Löhr sees red		ISBN 978-3-95451-718-3

Commissioner Brasch

In this small series from the Goldmann Verlag describes Reinhard Rohn the cases of the Cologne police officer Matthias Brasch. Brasch is bitter about the lost love of his girlfriend Leonie, whom he did not stand by in a difficult time because he was only concentrating on his most recent investigations.

appearance year	title	content	ISBN
2000	Empty mirror	The fact that his girlfriend Leonie left him without a word and had not contacted him for weeks was very upsetting to Chief Inspector Brasch. Now, in a murder case, he's faced with the fact that she is the main witness - and possibly the next victim.	ISBN 3-442-44816-6
2004	The lucky dead one	A guest, the well-known writer RA Kröber, dies a violent death in the renowned Cologne Cathedral Hotel . Then a chambermaid who saw the alleged perpetrator disappears and is found dead from the Rhine a little later. His instinct finally puts Brasch on the right track, but also puts him in deadly danger.	ISBN 3-442-45238-4
2004	The white singer	An old, confused woman leads Brasch to a dead boxer , her son Robert, whose suicide, however, is faked. Robert's friend Franziska then goes into hiding and Brasch's colleague Pia is injured in an attack in Franziska's apartment. Brasch is fascinated by a mysterious white-haired singer so much that he realizes her involvement in the murder case too late.	ISBN 3-442-45239-2
2007	The wrong diva	Two children who have disappeared bring Brasch to the darker side of an aging film actress. Then two murders happen. When the investigation got stuck in a dead end, Brasch discovered by chance that another crime was imminent.	ISBN 978-3-442-46039-7

Detective bear

Jürgen Raap is the author of the stories about the notoriously financially weak private investigator Karl-Josef Bär, which were published by KBV-Verlag. Bär has taken over the rundown detective agency of his uncle Manfred in Cologne- Ehrenfeld and is grateful for every client .

appearance year	title	content	ISBN
1996	Colonia Connection	Burned down as he is, Detective Bear accepts a dubious offer from MAD Captain Schröder. He is supposed to shadow the Serbian truck driver Czabatic. During his research, he comes across a small hotel near the train station, where Czabatic had stayed for a few days. When the owner disappears, his thoroughbred daughter hires Iovanca Bär to look for him. Bär finds out that Czabatic carried out an explosive attack on a Serbian cultural association in Bonn and that he also played a role in the kidnapping of the hotelier.	ISBN 3-927658-46-4
2000	Death of an art dealer	Bär is hired by the son of a deceased industrialist who does not believe that his father will die naturally. Schröder also soon interferes in the case, so Bär correctly suspects that it is not just about the trade in counterfeit looted art .	ISBN 3-934638-48-1
2003	A suitcase from Bern	Bär is supposed to get a suitcase from Bern for a seedy secret service agent . But the addressee in Cologne is dead.	ISBN 3-937001-02-6
2004	Eigelstein - Blues	This time, Bär delves deep into the past when he is commissioned to reconstruct the life of a man murdered in the 1960s. Bear's uncle Manfred had tried in vain to solve this crime.	ISBN 3-937001-41-7
2006	Death of a sprayer	The Ehrenfelder Sprayer- and trailer scene is the background of this story, in the bear two completely estranged families met. Twenty years of strife have now cost a human life.	ISBN 3-937001-85-9

Various

Other books by various publishers and authors are also devoted to the fight against crime in Cologne. Here is a selection:

appearance year	author	title	content	publishing company	ISBN
2002	Jan Bergrath D	Murder theater	With the establishment of a new independent stage, Andreas Hubert thoroughly mixed up the Cologne theater scene and made some enemies among the theater directors . When he is murdered, his friend, the journalist Torsten Fink, and Chief Inspector Knut Ohlsen are investigating . Torsten unexpectedly loses out.	Books on Demand GmbH	ISBN 3-8311-4127-4
2005	Jan Bergrath	Caught cold	The murderer did everything possible to make it look like an accident when he crushed the truck driver 'Kalle' Welscher with the trailer of his own truck . But a warehouse foreman in Cologne's wholesale market expresses doubts, and detective chief inspector Klaus Gerber and his homicide commission soon uncover the machinations in the international shipping industry .	KBV	ISBN 3-937001-49-2
2005	Jan Bergrath	Postmarked	A dead journalist: Did a research turn out to be his undoing in which he wanted to prove that Swiss Post bought the service union on its way to becoming a global player ? Chief Inspector Klaus Gerber comes across an informative novel and irregularities in the job placement of truck drivers.	KBV	ISBN 3-937001-63-8
2005	Jan Bergrath	Laughed dead	Killed in a parking lot near a brothel - like chief inspector Gerber finds out the well-off had lobbyist Dieter Haagen open nor a bill that from the time of the anti-nuclear movement and the RAF - Sympathisantentums stemmed at the beginning of the 1980s. Now Gerber has to clarify what role the well-known political cabaret artist Anton Dast is playing.	KBV	ISBN 3-937001-93-X
2001	Felizitas Carmann E.	Deadly steps	The young detective Rebecca Huthmacher is investigating a serial killer who cuts off one of his victims' ears. Even her new friend Krishna has come under suspicion. But the solution is closer than expected.	Bastei Lübbe	ISBN 3-404-14606-9
2004	Felizitas Carmann	Late atonement	Everything points to a murder by neo-Nazis . When Rebecca Huthmacher made the connection to a torture murder in Hamburg , she realized the real background: international child trafficking .	Bastei Lübbe	ISBN 3-404-15092-9
2005	Felizitas Carmann	Nothing but bones	Commissioner Hutmacher is faced with the question of what a mysterious monk has to do with the death of a homeless person and the murder of a young couple.	Bastei Lübbe	ISBN 3-404-15406-1
2002	Carola Clasen	The window to the zoo	The zookeeper Nelly Luxem is suspected of murder after a young photographer was mangled by a grizzly bear at the zoo .	KBV	ISBN 3-934638-83-X
1997	Thomas Görden	The crypt	Apparently the entire high society of Cologne is involved in the murder of an auxiliary bishop .	Knaur paperback	ISBN 3-426-62627-6
2005	Joachim Grintsch	Ancient terror		Schardt	ISBN 3-89841-192-3
2006	Joachim Grintsch	Freefall	Chief Detective Markus Roland is a human wreck. When a serial killer brutally kills two prostitutes, the alcoholic Roland goes to an addiction clinic . There he falls in love with the former prostitute Michaela, but continues to unofficially investigate the case during his withdrawal and soon afterwards completely loses his feet.	Schardt	ISBN 3-89841-230-X
1992 1993 N	Hen Hermanns	Ciao Tao	The copywriter Max Reinartz is shot at during the morning marathon training. Reinartz suspects a client of his agency and sniffs him out on his own. But he is wrong with this assumption, as it turns out after the New York marathon .	Haffmans Heyne	ISBN 3-251-01148-0 ISBN 3-453-06682-0
1992 1994 N	Hen Hermanns	Max perplex	After leaving the advertising industry, Max Reinartz founded a detective agency in Cologne. His first case earned him a beating and the realization that he was only used.	Haffmans Heyne	ISBN 3-251-01174-X ISBN 3-453-07889-6
1993 1993 N	Hen Hermanns	Maximum trouble	In his latest case, Max Reinartz receives an order from the head of a butcher's chain to find his protégé, who has gone into hiding after selling several properties for 10 million DM. Soon the butcher is dead, then the protégé is dead too, and when Reinartz meets a highway killer in California , he is almost dead too.	Haffmans Heyne	ISBN 3-251-30006-7 ISBN 3-453-06469-0
2010	Stefan Keller	Cologne crucifixion		Gmeiner	ISBN 978-3-8392-1078-9
2006	Gisa Klönne	Under the ice		Ullstein	ISBN 978-3-550-08645-8
2008	Gisa Klönne	Night without shadow		Ullstein	ISBN 978-3-550-08716-5
2009	Gisa Klönne	Colors of guilt		Ullstein	ISBN 978-3-550-08776-9
2007	Peter-Wolfgang Klose	Inspector Stein and the Unknown in Sinthern	The Cologne detective Armin Stein is called in his first murder case with his EU-funded exchange police officer Wienus van der Schoer from the Netherlands to a crime scene in Sinthern. A stranger lies unconscious on the street. He dies in the hospital. Together with Wienus, Armin Stein tries to clarify the case, but he stands in front of a wall of silence. What do the landlady, the organic farmer, the painter and all the others have to do with the murder? With patience and plenty of coffee, Armin Stein gets closer and closer to the solution. But does he solve the case correctly?	Publication service Zupan Munich	ISBN 978-3-936904-33-8
2008	Peter-Wolfgang Klose	Commissioner Stein and the house number 19	The Cologne detective Armin Stein and his team are called to a large hotel in Cologne-Marsdorf with the EU exchange police officer Johannes Jonas' III, known as Roman Three. The night porter has disappeared. And with it the contents of the safe. When the man is found dead in a field a day later, one thing is clear: a thief was robbed here. Together with his team, Armin Stein tries to clarify the case and gets to know the international world of the hotel industry. What do the staff, the guests and all the others have to do with the murder? Armin Stein comes closer and closer to the solution with patience and plenty of coffee. A recipe brings in Roman three. But firstly, it turns out differently than, secondly, you think it will	Publication service Zupan Munich	ISBN 978-3-936904-37-6
2008	Peter-Wolfgang Klose	Inspector Stein and the Indian from Potsdam	In his third case, the Cologne detective Armin Stein and his team and the EU-funded exchange police officer Urszula Lewandowska from Poland are asked for discretion when more and more plagiarisms of diploma theses appear at a private university. Urszula is smuggled in as a student and gets caught up in the vortex of events. Stone stands in front of a wall of silence. What do the students and alumni have to do with the case? A murder turns the case into a murder case and discretion is no longer the order of the day. With patience and plenty of coffee, Armin Stein gets closer and closer to the solution. But what has Urszula to fear if her incognito is discovered?	Publication service Zupan Munich	ISBN 978-3-936904-41-3
2008	Peter-Wolfgang Klose	Commissioner Stein and the blue frog	In his fourth murder case, the Cologne detective Armin Stein and his EU-funded exchange police officer Alf-Göran Nisser from Sweden are called to a crime scene in Cologne-Weiden. A stranger lies dead in a dumpster near the Rhein-Center. He has a blue ceramic frog in his mouth. It quickly turns out that it is a marriage fraud. Together with his team and ALf-Göran, Armin Stein tries to clarify the case, but all the cheated women have a motive. Was it a woman alone or a group who wanted revenge on the deceiver? With patience and plenty of coffee, Armin Stein gets closer and closer to the solution. But then do you find a second body?	Publication service Zupan Munich	ISBN 978-3-936904-47-5
2009	Peter-Wolfgang Klose	Inspector Stein and the tunnel oven	In his fifth case, the Cologne detective Armin Stein and his EU-funded exchange police officer Aad van der Muilen from Belgium are called to a crime scene in Frechen. An artificial hip joint lies in a pipe after the fire in the tunnel oven. There isn't much evidence for Armin and his team. Together with his team, Armin Stein tries to clarify the case, but he is faced with a tangle of ownership. Industrial espionage as Armin has never seen before. The trail leads to Austria, Belgium and Switzerland. For Aad, who likes you and you with Interpol, just the thing. Armin has to investigate carefully because the perpetrator is the only one who knows who the person was who owned the hip. With patience and plenty of coffee, Armin Stein gets closer and closer to the solution. But does he solve the case correctly or does he have to show consideration for the EU?	Publication service Zupan Munich	ISBN 978-3-936904-47-5
2009	Peter-Wolfgang Klose	Commissioner Stein and the King of the Huns	In his sixth case, the Cologne detective Armin Stein and his EU-funded exchange police officer Arvo Paikala from Finland are called to a crime scene in Cologne-Weiden. A man lies dead in a field. There isn't much evidence for Armin and his team. Together with his team, Armin Stein tries to clarify the case, but he is faced with a mystery. Who kills the new farmer from the triumvirate of the season, because the man was slain? The trail leads to a horde of Huns and the clique of the Cologne Carnival. A new world for Arvo Paikala. In addition, there is a very resolute mom who doesn't shy away from a punch with the salami. Armin Stein comes closer and closer to the solution with patience and plenty of coffee. But does he solve the case correctly or does he have to be considerate of the clique and the carnival?	Publication service Zupan Munich	ISBN 978-3-936904-49-9
2010	Peter-Wolfgang Klose	Inspector Stein and the gardener	In his fifth case, the Cologne detective Armin Stein and his EU-funded exchange police officer Domenico Manzoni from Italy are called to a crime scene in Marsdorf. An artificial hip joint lies in a pipe after the fire in the tunnel oven. There isn't much evidence for Armin and his team. Together with his team, Armin Stein tries to clarify the case, but he is faced with a riddle: Is it a jealous drama or is it about growing a new flower? Together with his team he is looking for the murderer. One thing is certain: the gardener is the murderer, because in this case only gardeners appear. As victims, perpetrators and witnesses. Have fun between cacti, geraniums and grave fork.	Publication service Zupan Munich	ISBN 978-3-936904-51-2
2010	Bruno Laberthier	All bucks bite	The bizarre story tells of official and unofficial investigations after an assassination attempt on the life of the wife of a 1. FC Köln striker . Only the undercover investigations of two FC fans pull the truth out into the light of day, but let the two 'detectives' almost sink into the Cologne club .	Rheinlese Verlag	ISBN 978-3-9808820-9-5
2004	Mila Lippke E.	To fear more than death	Sixteen-year-old Marie is at the center of this 1940 story, in which a Polish slave laborer is held responsible for the murder of a Gestapo man he did not commit.	Emons	ISBN 3-89705-334-9
1996	Burghard Meißner D	In the sign of vengeance	With tremendous brutality , a serial killer kills eight people in a short time, but leaves hardly any traces . Chief Inspector Walter Matheisen has been groping in the dark for a long time. When he is finally certain of the perpetrator, he lacks the evidence. Only a stroke of fate brings the truth to light.	KBV	ISBN 3-927658-40-5
1992	Rich Schwab E.	No more apple grain	First novel about the drummer and tavern manager Büb Klütsch, whom his detective ambitions put in dire straits after the kidnapping of his girlfriend Britta.	Volksblatt	ISBN 3-926949-05-8
2001	Rich Schwab	An old lady went herring	For Büb Klütsch, the attempt to make money as a street musician on the Côte d'Azur ends in an adventure that is as erotic as it is criminal.	Kiwi	ISBN 3-462-03511-8
2005	Rich Schwab	Pearls before the pigs	Since the police want to dismiss the death of his old friend Kathrinchen as a drug accident, Büb Klütsch searches for the truth himself. That brings him into unpleasant contact with the Cologne pimp circles .	KBV	ISBN 3-937001-54-9
2007	Mike Black	Fort X - Murder in the Rose Garden	Superintendent Dieter Witkowski and his team are investigating the case of the murdered student Markus Ehrmann, who wanted to finally get out of the callboy scene with the help of an accidental cocaine discovery . While the Kripo comes too late with their findings, Ehrmann's best friend Sascha avenges him in his own way.	Books on Demand GmbH	ISBN 978-3-8334-8369-1
2003	Birgit C. Wolgarten	Land of girls	The Cologne detective Katja Sommer is confronted in her first murder case with a serial killer, who falls victim to two underage boys. Together with her friend, the chief inspector and head of the homicide squad, Kai Grothe, Sommer gradually comes closer to the truth - when her eleven-year-old son Patrick is kidnapped.	Prolibris	ISBN 3-935263-14-7

Historical crime novels from Cologne

Under the name Köln Krimi Classic , the Emons Verlag publishes, in some cases as a new edition, historical crime novels that are set in different centuries.

Cologne Crime Classic No.	appearance year	author	title	content	ISBN
1	2001 N	Edgar Noske E.	Night over knickknacks	A few days in February 1957 decide the future of Leo Saalbach, a little bugger whom the police have linked with a murder he cannot remember.	ISBN 3-924491-45-3
2	1995 2001 N	Frank Schätzing	death and Devil	Jacop, the drifting around, was an eyewitness to the murder of the cathedral builder in Cologne in 1260 and was thus in great danger.	ISBN 3-924491-59-3
3	2001	Barbara Becker-Jákli	Murder in the Biedermeier period	The establishment of an art museum forms the background to a murder story that unsettled high-ranking circles in Cologne in 1823.	ISBN 3-89705-149-4
4th	2001	Stefan Winges	The fourth king. A case for Sherlock Holmes	The robbery of the Three Wise Men leads Holmes and his assistant Watson to the Rhine in 1896.	ISBN 3-89705-189-3
5	2001	Helmut Frangenberg E.	debris	The young police officer Richard Munckler was involved in the murder of a woman in 1947. So soon after the war , the lines between good and bad, guilt and innocence are blurring. What secret is Munkler's colleague Mohren hiding? The plot is based on a true story.	ISBN 3-89705-218-0
6th	2003	Edgar Noske	Kölsch roulette	The Queen's visit in 1965 is imminent. Then a series of murders shook the city, which killed eight young men. Leo Saalbach, now a pub owner and private investigator, uncovered a perfidious plan.	ISBN 3-89705-244-X
	2008	Edgar Noske	Heaven over Cologne		ISBN 978-3-89705-566-7
	2011	Paul Kohl	Night over Cologne		ISBN 978-3-89705-832-3

Cologne crime novels for Pänz

Emons Verlag also publishes the Köln Krimi series for Pänz , targeting young people interested in criminology. The series has been expanded to include a Cologne crime thriller for teens and a historical youth crime thriller under the title Anno Domini .

KK for Pänz No.	appearance year	author	title	content	ISBN
1	1995	Rolf Hülsebusch	The trail leads back		ISBN 3-924491-69-0
2	1996	Ralf Günther	Cool pots		ISBN 3-924491-82-8
3	1997	Rainer Schalk	The Roman treasure		ISBN 3-89705-101-X
4th	1998	Rolf Hülsebusch	Dog theft		ISBN 3-89705-118-4
5	1999	Angelika Hensgen	Giraffes under the bed		ISBN 3-89705-139-7
6th	2000	Angelika Hensgen	The thief from the cathedral		ISBN 3-89705-167-2
-	2000	Angelika Hensgen	Underground		ISBN 3-89705-199-0
-	2001	Belinda Rodik	The dragon of Cologne		ISBN 3-89705-165-6
7th	2002	Eva Steins	The sword of Julius Caesar		ISBN 3-89705-277-6
8th	2004	Rainer Schalk	Indian summer		ISBN 3-89705-250-4
9	2004	Rolf Hülsebusch	The face on the ceiling		ISBN 3-89705-320-9
10	2004	Eva Steins	The Ring of Anno		ISBN 3-89705-346-2
11	2006	Rolf Hülsebusch	Big coal		ISBN 3-89705-474-4
12	2007	Rolf Hülsebusch	The Rape of Apollonia		ISBN 3-89705-515-5
	2008	Eva Steins	Bille's secret		ISBN 3-89705-567-8

Reviews

• zu Köln-Krimi 38 (Emons), Millions Avenue

“Like many of the Cologne thrillers, she lives from recognizing well-known places and making many allusions to current events in Cologne. The story of the beggar and nobleman who save the world together is a bit constructed, but the Cologne crime thriller fan will forgive Franzmann. "

- Attempted murder on Melaten. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Cologne, December 16, 2008)

Remarks

1. ↑ For example, in Commissioner Löhr's second case, the OB candidate Flaucher
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} "N" = new edition
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} "E" = first work, "D" = crime debut
4. ↑ As in Löhr's second case, the failure of the SPD candidate Klaus Heugel to insider trading in 1999 or, in the fifth case, the failure to sell the Cologne housing associations “ GAG ” and “Grubo” to Terra Firma in 2002 and the dispute in the Cologne brewing family Päffgen
5. ↑ ^{a b c} another new edition in the anthology Max hoch 3 . Emons 2002, ISBN 3-89705-170-2 .
6. ↑ nominated for the 1992 Aspect Literature Prize .
7. ↑ awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2009.
8. ↑ Cologne crime thriller for teens
9. ↑ Anno Domini