Dr. Hoffmann
4 primary works
Book 1
Doctor Felix Hoffmann’s life is textbook success: a seasoned physician at a Berlin hospital, respected by colleagues, and devoted to his amorous and intelligent girlfriend Celine. It’s a life filled with medical work, televised soccer games, and the chill of German beer. Yet, when a former patient shows up dead by causes unknown, Hoffmann signs a death certificate that may be his own. Curiosity and sheer medical devotion propel him to investigate. However, his autopsy order goes unfulfilled as the body is cremated and hospital records vanish. Soon, Hoffmann discovers a diagnosis of conspiratorial proportions. The deeper he scans, the darker it gets, until a criminal clue emerges from Russia. Despite adversity, Hoffmann is determined to sleuth through with his own brand of logic and the aid of Celine’s powers of deduction.
Book 2
Doctor Felix Hoffmann is furious when an infusion pump mysteriously fails, nearly killing his eighty-two-year-old patient. But his anger quickly turns to suspicion when he learns the patient’s posh apartment is for sale — without the patient’s knowledge.
Together with his vivacious girlfriend, Celine, Felix discovers that someone at the hospital has concocted a deadly scheme to fleece geriatric patients and then hasten their deaths. Turns out he didn’t save his patient from an equipment failure — he saved him from murder.
When a suspicious accident turns the daring doctor into a patient at his own hospital, Felix must fight for his life while tracking down the killer. Can he unravel the scheme before the killer makes his rounds?
Together with his vivacious girlfriend, Celine, Felix discovers that someone at the hospital has concocted a deadly scheme to fleece geriatric patients and then hasten their deaths. Turns out he didn’t save his patient from an equipment failure — he saved him from murder.
When a suspicious accident turns the daring doctor into a patient at his own hospital, Felix must fight for his life while tracking down the killer. Can he unravel the scheme before the killer makes his rounds?
Book 3
It’s been 101 days since Felix Hoffmann’s girlfriend, Celine, left Berlin in a humanitarian convoy carrying aid to Kurdish northern Iraq. Now her coffin returns home. With the Iraq War all but begun, the story coming from Baghdad is that the young woman orchestrated the very bomb attack that killed her. But a devastated Felix, doctor at South Berlin Hospital, cannot believe that Celine would willingly participate in such an act, and certain clues—as well as questioning from German, Iraqi, and American agencies—raise the good doctor’s suspicions.A cryptic e-mail propels Felix to seek out the truth of what really happened to his lover. He discovers that part of the transported “humanitarian aid” was not actually humanitarian at all, leading him to believe that Celine’s fateful mission bore a far more dangerous purpose…and a far different outcome. And when the truth surfaces, Felix must fight for his life—or become another casualty of war.
Book 4
Dr. Felix Hoffmann is about to head home after a grueling night shift when he hears the words “This gun is loaded!” Hoffmann, long accustomed to helping others on the verge of death, suddenly finds himself—along with several colleagues and patients—at the mercy of a deranged blind kidnapper in the ICU. Deploying his own distinctive brand of diplomacy—and his characteristic acerbic wit—Hoffmann tries to convince the man to end the standoff while he still can. As the hot summer days tick by and the tension builds toward the shocking climax, Hoffmann is forced to reconsider who is friend and who is foe. The question becomes not only whether he can save the lives of all involved, but what this crisis reveals about the people he thought he knew best.
This fourth novel in Christoph Spielberg’s acclaimed Dr. Hoffmann series offers searing yet humorous commentary on modern medicine, globalization, the media, and simple human kindness.
This fourth novel in Christoph Spielberg’s acclaimed Dr. Hoffmann series offers searing yet humorous commentary on modern medicine, globalization, the media, and simple human kindness.