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by Philip Kerr

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This seller has earned a 4.31 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Reviewers describe the trilogy as a gritty, vividly rendered portrait of postwar Germany—absorbing but heavy, even disturbing at times. While the series is broadly praised, the installments feel uneven, with A German Requiem singled out as the strongest and The Pale Criminal only partly successful.

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THE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY FROM THE MASTER THRILLER WRITER

'[Philip Kerr's] Bernie Gunther novels are extraordinary' Ian Rankin

The first three in the Bernie Gunther series, March Violets, The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem are true crime classics that transport readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduce the cynical, wise-cracking private eye who sought justice within it.

MARCH VIOLETS

Bernhard Gunther is a private eye, specializing in missing persons. And in Hitler's Berlin, he's never short of work...

Winter 1936. A man and his wife shot dead in their bed. The woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life.

As Bernie follows the trail into the very heart of Nazi Germany, he's forced to confront a horrifying conspiracy. A trail that ends in the hell that is Dachau...

THE PALE CRIMINAL

It is 1938 and Bernie Gunther is back on the mean streets of Berlin with his new partner, Bruno Stahlecker, another ex-police officer. But on a seemingly straightforward stakeout, Bruno is killed, and Bernie suddenly finds himself tapped for a much bigger job.

A serial sex murderer is killing Aryan teenage girls in Berlin - and what's worse, he's making utter fools of the police. Gunther is forced to accept a temporary post in Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich's state Security Service, with a team of men underneath him tasked purely with hunting the killer.

But can he trust his team any more than he can trust his superiors?

A GERMAN REQUIEM

In the bitter winter of 1947 the Russian Zone is closing ever more tightly around Berlin.

When an enigmatic Russian colonel asks Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna, where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge, Bernie doesn't hesitate for long. Gunther is convinced that shooting an American Nazi-hunter is one crime he didn't commit.

But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie expects it to be. Communism is the new enemy, and with the Nuremberg trials over, some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace - alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison.

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  • Title Berlin Noir: March Violets the Pale Criminal a German Requiem
  • Author Philip Kerr
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 880
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking, New York
  • Publication date 2012
  • ISBN 9780241962350 / 0241962358
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 1.74 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 4.42 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh and read Law at university. He stayed on to read Law and Philosophy as a postgraduate, most of this German, which was when he first became interested in German twentieth century history. He worked first as a copywriter at a number of advertising agencies, including Saatchi & Saatchi, but spent most of his time researching an idea he'd had for a novel about a Berlin-based policeman. And following several trips to Germany - and a great deal of walking around mean streets of Berlin - his first novel, March Violets, was published in 1989 and introduced the world to the iconic tough-talking detective Bernie Gunther. Since then he has written and published ten universally lauded Bernie Gunther novels, and is currently working on his eleventh. He has won both the RBA International Prize for Crime Writing, and the CWA Ellis Peters Historic Crime Award.
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