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Jan 28, 2019 · Thanks! A Series of historical noir detective thrillers written by Scottish author Philip Kerr (RIP), the Bernie Gunther series takes place before, during, and after World War II. Bernhard “Bernie” Günther is an ex-Berlin cop turned private investigator, a kind of Philip Marlowe in Nazi Germany. He is an honest cop trying to do his work in ...
Bernie Gunther Series. 14 primary works • 16 total works. BERNARD GUNTHER is a former soldier (he fought with the Wehrmacht on the Turkish Front in the first World War) and an ex-cop (an inspector for the Kriminalpolizei) now working as a private eye in the pre-World War II years of Berlin, specializing in the missing persons.
- March Violets – 1989
- The Pale Criminal – 1990
- A German Requiem – 1991
- Berlin Noir – 1994
- The One from The Other – 2006
- A Quiet Flame – 2008
- If The Dead Rise Not – 2009
- Field Grey – 2010
- Prague Fatale – 2011
- A Man Without Breath – 2013
The first novel is set in 1936, the year The Nazis won their second election with 98.8% of the vote. The Prussian Criminal Police are being merged with the Gestapo to become the SiPo, and Berlin is to host the Olympic Games. March Violets introduces ex-cop turned private detective Gunther, who is hired by industrialist Hermann Six to locate a stole...
The Pale Criminal is set two years after March Violets, with Bernie Gunther working with another ex-cop to help the owner of a publishing house find out who is blackmailing her using homosexual love letters her son sent to his psychiatrist. Despite turning his back years earlier on police work, his former boss Arthur Nebe convinces Gunther to work ...
In A German Requiem, Gunther returns from World War II where he spent the majority of his time in a Soviet prisoner of war camp in Ukraine. The year is 1947 and Gunther finds postwar Germany and Austria struggling under allied occupation with a number of ex-Nazis in prominent positions. Arthur Nebe returns to Gunther’s life, despite Bernie being su...
In 1994, March Violets, The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem were reissued as a set under the title Berlin Noir. Buy now on Amazon
Fifteen years after the publication of A German Requiem, Philip Kerr returned to Gunther with The One From The Other, again set in post-war Germany. In it, Kerr steps up the Chandler-esque dialogue and complex plotting that won so many fans in the original Berlin Noir trilogy. But while the first trilogy sometimes reads as irreverent satire, The On...
The fifth Bernie Gunther novel is the first to jump backwards and forwards between two time periods, a trope that Kerr uses to great effect as the series goes on. The action alternates between 1950, shortly after the close of The One From The Other, and 1932-33, when Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor. The government of Juan Perón has extended a h...
If The Dead Rise Not continues the flashback theme, with the action divided between Berlin in 1934 and Havana in 1954. In 1934 the Nazis have achieved a propaganda coup by securing the 1936 Olympics, and along with the head of the US Olympic Committee decide to gloss over the racism and anti-semitism of the German rulers in order to ensure popular ...
Field grey was the colour of the uniforms worn by the guards in German concentration camps. In fact, they were made by Hugo Boss. Gunther spends a lot of the novel locked up in a series of brutal hell holes. First he’s captured by the Americans for attempting to smuggle a woman from Cuba to Haiti (a job he performed with little willingness), then e...
It’s 1941 and Gunther is back in Berlin, and back at his old desk investigating homicides. The city has changed in the years he was away, with the Nazis in control everywhere. Gunther finds himself with no choice but to do as the Nazis say, including his old boss Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SD and one of the chief architects of the Holocaust. Wh...
Once again, A Man Without Breath is more straightforward than some of the earlier novels, this time set entirely in 1943. After the fall of Stalingrad it appears that the tide of the war is swinging and the Nazis hold on power is in danger of slipping. The Nazis are after a propaganda coup to win back morale, and hit upon the massacre of Polish off...
The Bernie Gunther Series in Order (14 Books) Order Book Date Rating; 1: March Violets: Jul-1990: 4: 2: ... The first book in the Bernie Gunther series, March Violets ...
Order of Bernie Gunther Books. Bernie Gunther is the central character in a series of historical mystery/thriller novels by British novelist Philip Kerr. Bernie fought on the Turkish Front during World War I and was a cop before becoming a private eye in Berlin before World War II. His business is heating up due to the rise of the Nazi Party ...
By dipping his toes into his new client’s business, Bernie is drawn into a scandal that involves Hitler’s main henchmen, a scandal that could claim his life and his sanity. The Bernie Gunther novels are historical literature. The first few stories that Philip Kerr tells are actually set in Berlin before the Second World War.
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