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  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241962350
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 880
  • RRP: $37.00

Berlin Noir

March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem



A reissue with brand new cover of the thriller classic - the first three Bernie Gunther novels in one volume

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 . . .

  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241962350
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 880
  • RRP: $37.00

About the author

Philip Kerr

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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Praise for Berlin Noir

Exceptionally good

The Times

Taut, brutal, coarse, believable and gripping stuff

Sunday Telegraph

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

Evening Standard

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

Sunday Times

Beautifully written

Scotsman