Hamburg Noir

About

Peter Sarda is a third-generation Californian living and working in Hamburg, Germany. He’s also an incurable addict of hardboiled pulp fiction and film noir.

His hardboiled detective series, Hamburg Noir, is set in his adoptive home, a rugged harbor town with lots of old trading money, a "sinful mile" devoted to the world's oldest profession, and a robust and colorful criminal underworld. In the first book of the series, One-Way Ticket (2020), a new homicide detective with a troubled past steps into the biggest police scandal in Hamburg history. In the second book, Bad Cop (2022), a burned-out narcotics agent with his own drug issues goes very, very bad. In the third book, Edda Green (2024), a former explosives expert in Afghanistan loses her blood brother to brutal killers back home and finds "closure" through scorched earth.

Sarda is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association, a “shamus” of the Film Noir Foundation, and the primary source for “Crime and the City: Hamburg” on CrimeReads.