From the master thriller writer dive into the acclaimed detective Bernie Gunther series soon
to be an Apple TV+ series '[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.
