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A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: A Bernie Gunther Novel
The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, ...Show more
A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Bernie Gunther
It is winter, 1943. Bernie Gunther has left the Criminal Police and is working for the German War Crimes Bureau based in Berlin. Reports have been circulating of a mass grave hidden in a wood near Smolensk. The grave's whereabouts are uncertain until, deep in the Katyn Forest, a wolf digs up some human ...Show more
A Man Without Breath: fast-paced historical thriller from a global bestselling author by Philip Kerr
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Bernie Gunther Ser.
Berlin, March 1943. The mood in Germany is bleak after their stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Private Investigator Bernie Gunther is at work in the German War Crimes Bureau - weary, cynical but well aware of the value of truth in a world where that's now a rarity. When human remains are found deep in the ...Show more
A Philosophical Investigation by Philip Kerr
Category: Crime and Thrillers
London, 2013, and the city is battling an epidemic of serial killings - even with the widespread government use of DNA detection, brain-imaging, and the 'punitive coma'. Detective Isadora 'Jake' Jacowicz is hunting a murderer, code-named 'Wittgenstein,' who has taken it upon himself to eliminate anyone ...Show more
A Philosophical Investigation by Philip Kerr
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A terrifyingly prescient cult classic by the author of the Berlin Noir trilogy LONDON, 2013. Serial killings have reached epidemic proportions-even with the widespread government use of DNA detection, brain-imaging, and the "punitive coma." Beautiful, whip-smart, and driven by demons of her own, Detect ...Show more
A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr
Category: Fiction | Series: Bernie Gunther Novels (Paperback)
Bernie Gunther returns to trail a serial killer in 1950's Buenos Aires When he introduced Bernie Gunther in the original Berlin Noir trilogy, Philip Kerr immediately established himself as a thriller writer on par with Raymond Chandler. His new Bernie Gunther novels have won him comparisons with Alan F ...Show more
A Quiet Flame: A Bernie Gunther Mystery by Philip Kerr
Category: Fiction
Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Ber ...Show more
A Quiet Flame: Bernie Gunther Thriller 5 by Philip Kerr
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Bernie Gunther Ser.
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. A young girl has been murdered in pec ...Show more
Beneath the Skin - Great Writers on the Body by Ned Beauman; Naomi Alderman; Thomas Lynch (Introduction by); Philip Kerr; A. L. Kennedy; Chibundu Onuzo
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection.
Beneath the Skin - Great Writers on the Body by Ned Beauman; Naomi Alderman; Thomas Lynch (Introduction by); Philip Kerr; A. L. Kennedy
Category: Politics | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers? Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the S ...Show more
Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A combined edition of: "March Violets", "The Pale Criminal", and, "A German Requiem".
Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Bernie G?nther series
Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s 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 lega ...Show more