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, a troubled homicide detective transfers to town, only to step into the biggest police scandal in Hamburg history. In the second book, Bad Cop, the investigation of a bloody gang war to control the local drug trade is complicated by a good cop gone very, very bad. The third book is in development.