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March Violets

The Pale Criminal

A German Requiem

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Berlin Noir

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Taut, brutal, coarse, believable and gripping stuff

Echoes of Raymond Chandler but better on his vivid and well-researched detail than the master

Full marks . . . Kerr¹s complex intrigue allows space for brilliantly provoking political asides

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March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem

Ex-Policeman Bernie Günther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930's Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi sub-culture. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison . . .

From the award-winning crime thriller writer, dive into the first three novels of iconic detective Bernie Gunther series, perfect for fans of Robert Harris and Frederick Forsythe. 
 
SOON TO BE AN APPLE TV+ SERIES FEATURING COLIN FIRTH AND JACK LOWDEN 
 
‘The contemporary master of the morally complex thriller' New York Observer 
 
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' Lee Child 
 
'[Philip Kerr's] Bernie Gunther novels are extraordinary' Ian Rankin 
 
MARCH VIOLETS 
 
Winter, 1936. Specializing in missing persons cases, private eye and former cop Bernhard Gunther is never short of work in Hitler’s Berlin. 
 
When a man and his wife are shot dead in their bed, and their home burned, the woman's millionaire father wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life. Desperate for answers, he turns to Bernhard Gunther for help. 
 
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's 1938 and detective Bernie Gunther is back on the mean streets of Berlin with his new partner, ex-police officer Bruno Stahlecker. But on a seemingly straightforward stakeout, Bruno is killed, and Bernie suddenly finds himself tapped for a much bigger job. 
 
A serial killer is murdering Aryan teenage girls in Berlin - and what's worse, he's making utter fools of the police. 
 
When the head of the state Security Service, Reinhard Heydrich, asks Bernie to rejoin the Berlin police force, he is forced to accept, working 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.

Philip Kerr is the award-winning author of over thirty books, of which the best-known are the internationally renowned and bestselling Bernie Gunther series. His other works include several standalone thrillers, non-fiction and an acclaimed series for younger readers. Philip died in March 2018, days before the publication of his 13th Bernie Gunther thriller, Greeks Bearing Gifts. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature shortly before his death.

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Taut, brutal, coarse, believable and gripping stuff

Echoes of Raymond Chandler but better on his vivid and well-researched detail than the master

Full marks . . . Kerr¹s complex intrigue allows space for brilliantly provoking political asides

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