FICTION
Released: April 14, 2011
"An accomplished thriller."
When fans meet Bernie Gunther in this latest saga in the adventurous life of the hard-bitten, sardonic policeman, Kerr's (
If the Dead Rise Not, 2010, etc.) stalwart Berliner detective is in pre-Castro Cuba.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2010
"Another sexy, mordantly funny, thinking man's thriller from Kerr (A Quiet Flame, 2009, etc.), who, despite an impressive body of work, continues to fly under the radar."
It's 1934, and Bernie Gunther's chasing bad guys in Hitler's Berlin. It's 1954, and bad guys are chasing Bernie in the Mafia's Havana.
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FICTION
Released: March 19, 2009
"Warts and all--Kerr makes little attempt to hide them--Bernie Gunther (The One from the Other, 2006, etc.) remains endearing, entertaining and eminently forgivable."
Hitler is history, but Bernie Gunther, the SS guy with a heart of gold, is alive and well, and chasing dirty rats in Argentina.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2006
"Grim and gripping, with all the author's customary sure-handedness in evidence."
After 15 years, Kerr (
Hitler's Peace, 2005, etc.) dusts off his most compelling protagonist: Bernie Gunther, postwar Berlin's hardest-boiled PI.
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FICTION
Released: May 19, 2005
"Again, the protean Kerr (Dark Matter, 2002, etc.) nails his setting and does justice to a large fictitious/for-real cast, but an emotionally inaccessible protagonist--who sees an affinity between himself and Hitler, inasmuch as both are without "moral values"--is hard to warm to."
It's 1943, two years before V-E Day, and everybody knows the Germans are beaten--especially the Germans. So what's to be done about it?
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2002
"Rich as history and philosophy, largely weak as drama."
Set in squalid 17th-century London, this intellectually rigorous and emotionally cool mystery finds Sir Isaac Newton pursuing counterfeiters and uncovering a far-reaching plot that threatens Great Britain.
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