Philip Kerr, Author Penguin Books $4.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-011466-9
In an ``impressive'' debut mystery novel, Bernhard Gunther is a hard-boiled Berlin detective hired by a wealthy industrialist to find the murderer of his daughter and son-in-law, killed during the robbery incorrect here.eed theft of a priceless...
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Philip Kerr. Putnam, $27 (544p) ISBN 978-0-399-17705-7
Edgar-finalist Kerr’s stunning 12th Bernie Gunther novel (after 2016’s The Other Side of Silence) races along on two parallel tracks. In the first, set in 1956, Bernie, who’s been working as a hotel concierge in Cannes, flees France because he...
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Philip Kerr. Putnam/Wood, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-17704-0
Set in 1956 on the French Riviera, Kerr’s assured 11th Bernie Gunther novel (after 2015’s The Lady from Zagreb) opens on a dark note, with Bernie’s confessing to a failed suicide attempt after his wife abandoned him. Bored by his current job as a...
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Philip Kerr. Putnam/Marion Wood, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-16764-5
Bestseller Kerr’s superlative 10th novel featuring former homicide cop Bernie Gunther (after 2013’s A Man Without Breath) finds Bernie, now an officer in the SD, at an international police conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee in the summer of...
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Philip Kerr. Putnam, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-16765-2
Edgar-finalist Kerr takes a break from his Bernie Gunther PI series (Prague Fatale, etc.) with this provocative standalone set mainly in present-day Texas. Houston FBI agent Gil Martins usually handles domestic terrorism, but he can’t resist...
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Philip Kerr. Putnam, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-16079-0
Set in the spring of 1943, Kerr’s captivating ninth Bernie Gunther novel (after 2011’s Prague Fatale) takes Gunther—now attached to the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau—from Berlin to Smolensk, to investigate mass graves of Polish officers discovered in...
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Philip Kerr. Putnam/Marian Wood, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15902-2
Kerr’s stellar eighth Bernie Gunther novel (after 2011’s Field Gray) takes the Berlin cop to Prague in October 1941, to investigate the murder of an adjutant of feared SS Gen. Reinhard Heydrich, who’s just become the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
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Philip Kerr, Putnam/Marian Wood, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-15741-7
Bernie Gunther's past catches up with him in Kerr's outstanding seventh novel featuring the tough anti-Nazi Berlin PI who survived the Nazi regime (after If the Dead Rise Not). In 1954, Bernie is living quietly in Cuba, doing a little work for...
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Philip Kerr, Author Warner Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-52053-9
Computerphobia proves catching, and deliciously so, in Kerr's sixth thriller (after Dead Meat, 1994). Published last year in England as Gridiron, the novel made the London Sunday Times bestseller list and gained new prominence for its author,...
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Philip Kerr, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (239p) ISBN 978-0-89296-562-5
Kerr's most recent novel, A Philosophical Investigation , takes place in England in the near future, while his three-volume Bernhard Gunther series, begun with March Violets , is set in 1930s Berlin. Here he turns to modern-day Russia to trace an...
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Philip Kerr, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $20 (329p) ISBN 978-0-374-23176-7
Semantics, epistemology and serial murder share center stage in this imaginative but unconvincing near-future thriller. The year is 2013, and European researchers have discovered a physiological basis for violent criminal tendencies in men. The...
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Philip Kerr, Author Viking Books $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-83516-4
In the wreckage of postwar Berlin, PI Bernie Gunther--in his third appearance--accepts coal for payment and reluctantly takes on a case for Russian Col. Palkovich Poroshin, one of the despised ``Ivans.'' Asked to prove black marketeer Emil Becker...
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Philip Kerr, Author . Crown $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-609-60981-1
Holmes and Watson provide the template for this very satisfying historical thriller from Kerr (The Grid, etc.), with Sir Isaac Newton acting as great detective and one Christopher Ellis serving as narrator. It's 1696, and a series of murders are
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Philip Kerr, Author Viking Books $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-82431-1
The brutality and corruption of Nazi Germany serve as the backdrop for this impressive debut mystery novel. Scottish-born Kerr re-creates the period accurately and with verve; the novel reeks of the sordid decade that saw Hitler's rise to power....
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Philip Kerr, Author Penguin Books $4.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-017561-5
In this powerful and atmospheric novel, set in the wreckage of post-WW II Berlin, PI Bernie Gunther, in his third appearance, infiltrates a group of ex-Nazis to resolve a possible murder frame-up. (Jan.)
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Philip Kerr, Author Atria Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-04140-3
Popular British author Kerr (A Five-Year Plan, etc.) skillfully weaves fictional intrigue and historical events in his new novel, a political thriller set in the early JFK years. At the center of the story is a Miami-based hit man who goes by the...
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Philip Kerr, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (340p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5962-5
Quantum physics collides with metaphysics in this futuristic thriller, and sends its plot careening into wildly unpredictable territory. In the year 2069, most of the earth's population is infected with P2, a slow-acting parvovirus that inevitably...
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Philip Kerr, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (372p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5175-9
British author Kerr follows The Grid with an accomplished hybrid of science and Spielberg, in which readers journey to a pristine, mystical locale high in the Himalayas. Jack Furness, America's greatest mountain climber, is the only survivor of an...
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Philip Kerr, Author Grand Central Publishing $22.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-60340-9
THE GRID Philip Kerr. Warner, $6.99 ISBN 0-446-60340-6. In a starred review, PW found Kerr's literary techno-thriller about a computerized skyscraper that turns on its occupants ""sure and savvy."" (Feb.)
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Philip Kerr, Author . Putnam/Marian Wood $26.95 (437p) ISBN 978-0-399-15615-1
Both newcomers and established fans will appreciate Kerr's outstanding sixth Bernie Gunther novel (after A Quiet Flame
), as it fills in much of the German PI's backstory. By 1934, as the Nazis tighten their grip on power, Gunther has left
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Philip Kerr, Author . Putnam/Marion Wood $26.95 (389p) ISBN 978-0-399-15530-7
At the start of Kerr’s stellar fifth Bernie Gunther novel (after The One from the Other
), the former Berlin homicide detective seeks exile in Argentina in 1950, along with others connected to the Nazi past (one of his fellow ship passengers...
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Philip Kerr, Author . Putnam/Marian Wood $26.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-399-15299-3
Set in 1949, Kerr's excellent fourth novel to feature Bernhard Gunther (after 1991's German Requiem
) finds the erstwhile PI managing a failing hotel about a mile from the site of the Dachau concentration camp. After the death of his wife,...
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Philip Kerr, Author . Putnam/Marian Wood $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-15269-6
Fans of Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy will prize this briskly paced WWII-era spy thriller, which boasts plot twists that will keep readers' heads spinning even after they've put it down. For Willard Mayer, a 35-year-old Harvard-educated...
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Philip Kerr, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $16.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-439-67019-7
In thriller writer Philip Kerr's YA debut, he puts an entertaining spin on the genie-in-a-lantern mythos, thanks to the exotic setting and a breezy and humorous delivery. Twelve-year-old John and Philippa Gaunt are "the least identical twins
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Philip Kerr, read by John Lee. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-1-61176-449-9
The 10th book in Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series (after A Man Without a Breath) is largely set in 1942 Berlin. This time, Bernie, an officer in the SD, begins to serve at the beck and call of Josef Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Truth and Propaganda,...
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Philip Kerr. Putnam/Wood, $27 (528p) ISBN 978-0-399-17706-4
Set in 1957, bestseller Kerr’s twisty 13th Bernie Gunther novel (after 2017’s Prussian Blue) finds the former Berlin cop employed as a lowly mortuary assistant in Munich. Fortunately, a bit of detective work he does on the side leads to a new job as
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Philip Kerr. Putnam/Wood, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1889-5
At the start of bestseller Kerr’s gripping 14th and final Bernie Gunther novel (after 2018’s Greeks Bearing Gifts), a prequel, Bernie’s skills as a vice cop earn him a place on the Berlin Murder Commission in the summer of 1928. In one of his first...
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