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German Requiem: A Bernie Gunther Novel
German Requiem: A Bernie Gunther Novel | Philip Kerr
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Post-World War 2, Bernie Gunther investigates the murder of an American Nazi-hunter amongst the ruins of the Third Reich in this riveting thriller in Philip Kerr's bestselling historical mystery series. Vienna, 1947. Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him deeper into the enormities of the regime. Now the war is over and Bernie is in Vienna, trying to clear an old friend and ex-Kripo colleague of the murder of an American officer. Amid decaying imperial splendor Bernie traces concentric circles of evil that lead him to a former head of the Gestapo and to a legacy that makes the atrocities of the war seem lily-white in comparison...
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Another one in which a naked woman dies a gruesome death for set-dressing. I‘m all set with these books, don‘t need to keep reading them.

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Starting the third one of the Berlin Noir trilogy...or at least they are called that, but it really seems like it‘s just the first 3 books in a sleuth series.

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The third in Philip Kerr's BERNIE GUNTHER SERIES is a complex historical thriller that effectively draws on the psychological, physical and political effects of World War II on victors and losers alike and the dubious alliances that came about during the first sparks of the Cold War but the female characters are thinly characterised (and almost all prostitutes) and I didn't believe in Gunther's new Catholic faith.