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March Violets

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17th March 2016

Price: £7.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781786480873

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‘One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written’ LEE CHILD

Brutal ex-convicts or the Nazi elite – in Bernie Gunther’s world it’s hard to tell who are the real gangsters.


Ex-Berlin cop and private detective Bernie Gunther has seen his share of bad guys. But when the worst guys of all are the ones running the show, it’s much harder to stay out of their reach.

Hired by a wealthy industrialist to investigate the murder of his daughter and her husband in an apparent botched robbery, Bernie soon finds himself drawn into the complex – not to mention lethal – internal politics and corruption of the Nazi party. When Hermann Goering himself calls Bernie in with a task for him that throws his existing case into a whole new light, he must weigh up his hatred of the Nazis against his desire to stay alive.

Perfect for fans of Raymond Chandler and John le Carré.

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PRAISE FOR PHILIP KERR


‘Kerr leads us through the facts of history and the vagaries of human nature’
TOM HANKS

‘One of the greatest master story-tellers in English’ ALAN FURST

‘One of the most memorable and original characters’
SUNDAY TIMES

‘Bitterly, darkly funny’
SUNDAY HERALD

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Reviews

The Times
Exceptionally good... the best first crime novel of the year
Guardian
Catches the nasty taste of the jackboot era and the wisecracking flavour of the pulps... An impressive debut
The Times
Kerr not only provides a wonderfully sharp and satirical Philip Marlowe in his laid-back, wise-cracking Berlin shamus, but also a plot that is highly original
Evening Standard
Fast-paced, laconic, unpredictable, and witty... does not contain a dull page
The Scotsman
Beautifully written, tangy with atmosphere
Kirkus Reviews
Dark, complex, and relentlessly witty - a nearly perfect marriage of threatening background and twisted plot to a German Philip Marlowe
Literary Review
Different, distinctive and well worth your while
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Kerr's novels are modern classics
The Times
Bernie Gunther is one of the more interesting and original private eyes in thriller fiction
The Sun
His Raymond Chandleresque mysteries about a cynical Berlin cop reluctantly working for the Nazis are [Kerr's] masterpiece
Sunday Times
Streets ahead of most other historical thrillers in its blend of wit, careful plotting and the kind of detail that brings the past to life