Peter Sarda is a third-generation Californian living and working in Hamburg, Germany. His crime thriller 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.