Author: Philip Kerr Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, War/Military
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ISBNs: 9780399159022 0399159029 |
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September 1941. Bernie Gunther returns from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find his home city of Berlin changed, and changed for the worse. Now back at his old desk on Homicide in Kripo HQ, Alexanderplatz, Bernie starts to investigate the death of a Dutch railway worker, while starting something - of an entirely different nature - with a local good-time girl.
But he is obliged to drop everything when his old boss, Reinhard Heydrich of the SD, the new Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia, orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house. It's an invitation Bernie feels he would gladly have been spared, especially when he meets his fellow guests - all of them senior loathsome figures in the SS and SD.
The weekend turns sour almost immediately when a body is found, in a room that was locked from the inside. Now the spotlight falls on Bernie to show off his investigative skills and solve this seemingly impossible mystery. If he fails to do so, he knows what is at stake - not only his reputation, but also that of Reinhard Heydrich, a man who does not like to lose face.
So begins the most diplomatically sensitive case of Bernie Gunther's police career.
This book is part of the "Bernie Gunther" series. Here are some other books from this series:
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 | "Field Gray" First published in 2010 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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 | "March Violets" First published in 1989 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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