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Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem Paperback – 19 September 2012

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Ex-Policeman Bernie Günther thought he¹d seen everything on the streets of 1930¹s 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 . . . '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

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Publisher : Penguin (General UK); 1st edition (19 September 2012)
Language : English
Paperback : 880 pages
ISBN-10 : 0241962358
ISBN-13 : 978-0241962350
Dimensions : 12.95 x 4.06 x 19.81 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 66,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1,573 in Hard-Boiled Mystery
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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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PHILLIP H ALT

Philip Ker, Bermie Gunter series are the best books in this genre

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I find these books hard to put down.

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Bertolt

Can't say more than okay

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2019

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I don’t understand how some reviewers can have quite so high an opinion of this series. These are reasonably ordinary Chandler-esque detective stories, with the limitation that Kerr doesn’t write nearly as well as Chandler. Indeed, his strength has always been novel ideas, his writing never particularly great, and since he is here writing rather conventional fare, that stands out: the writing is somewhat clunky, the characterisation a bit poor. The books are strongest for their setting, in pre- then post-war Berlin. That starts off clumsily – shades of, ‘’Ah, you must be Heinrich Schmutz, famous German cinematographer and amateur violinist’ – but gets better as Kerr eases into it. By the end of the first book, the setting has some depth, and impacts upon the story.

The first book is the best of the three. The second is okay but has too familiar a story set-up, and the third loses much of its force because it lacks the Nazi backdrop.

I didn’t dislike these books but didn’t find them compelling – nor see how others could find them compelling, really. They are okay. I don’t feel a particular urge to buy more, but will if and when I can’t find anything more enticing.

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The greatest noir trilogy ever?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 August 2018

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I first read the Berlin Noir trilogy (the first three Bernie Gunther books, despite the odd chronology) more than twenty years ago in paperback. Since then, of course, Bernie Gunther has been the subject of many more novels - and I’ve moved to a Kindle. Heading off to France on the train, I decided to reread the trilogy on My Kindle. It remains one of the most remarkable trilogies that I’ve ever read. The first two books are set pre-war as the Nazis consolidate control in Germany in the 1930s. The last is set immediately after the war in a bleak Berlin and a determinedly forgetful Vienna. The books are hugely thrilling and entertaining. They are also brilliantly well written and portray the sense of pervasive and growing evil with power as well as restraint. They also capture the post war ennui and corruption equally well.
I’d recommend these books to noir fans, thriller fans, historical fans and literary fans. They really are that good.

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A great read - interesting and fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2018

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I have read the whole series, but will comment on just this 'starter set' - if you like these you will like the rest! Novels cleverly interweaving actual historical events and people have appealed to me since I read the first Flashman book back in the early 1970s and I have always like detective stories, so the clever combination of these genres in Kerr's novels was almost bound to please. And they do please because they are well written and have great underlying (but not overly intrusive) humour. They are fun and interesting and, to the non-specialist, seem well researched. I really have no time for pedants who complain, say, that the model of revolver mentioned on page X wasn't actually issued to the army until the following February (get a life!) .

Anyway, I highly recommend these. Try them and make up your own mind - yes, they are well worth trying.

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Gavin Whatrup

The beginning of a series of that pokes the personality of a challenging character

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2018

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I've read each of the Bernie Gunther novels, but it all started with Berlin Noir.
He is not an anti-hero, as others havr marked him. Not unless you need yours clad in skin-tight lycra sporting a cape. Bernie Gunther is the kind of hero we probably wish we could be; soiled, slightly gnarled, but with a stubborness, and a dog-eared set of principles.
The historic detail is recounted with the same level of precision as Bernie Gunther's character. Woven together forming and informing a 3D world to immerse yourself in. So if you get nothing else out of Philip Kerr's novels, you'll be better historically informed.

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PH3282

Chandler-esque Berlin gumshoe

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2019

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An odd mixture: Raymond Chandler inspired wisecracking gumshoe in Nazi Germany (and beyond). Consequently, very funny in places, gruesome in others. A good use of historical characters.
The plots are well conceived but it just gets a bit over-wrought at times. The open-ness of the first book works very well: a device Kerr all but abandons thereafter.
Overall: an entertaining read. The first book is by far the best.

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