Best Philip Kerr Novels - April 2024

Metropolis (A Bernie Gunther Novel)

"[Metropolis is] a perfect goodbye--and first hello--to its hero...Bernie Gunther has, at last, come home."--Washington PostNew York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad.Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten. In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735218897
• ASIN: 0735218897
• ISBN: 0735218897
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Field Gray (Bernie Gunther, Book 7) (A Bernie Gunther Novel)

This Edgar® Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective’s harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2. During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective—until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twenty-five tumultuous years, Field Gray strides across the killing fields of Europe, landing Bernie i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143120727
• ASIN: 0143120727
• ISBN: 9780143120728
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

If the Dead Rise Not: A Bernie Gunther Novel

Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this “richly satisfying mystery...that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own”(Los Angeles Times). Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad...   Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143118536
• ASIN: 0143118536
• ISBN: 0143118536
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

A Quiet Flame: A Bernie Gunther Novel

In this riveting historical mystery novel from New York Times bestselling author Philip Kerr, Bernie Gunther trails a serial killer in 1950’s Buenos Aires... Buenos Aires, 1950. After being falsely accused of war crimes, Bernie Gunther—like the Nazis he has always despised—has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Perón government. But the tough, fast-talking ex-Berlin detective doesn’t have the luxury of laying low. The local police pressure Bernie into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up gruesomely mutilated. What’s more, her murder just might be linked t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143116487
• ASIN: 0143116487
• ISBN: 0143116487
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Other Side of Silence (A Bernie Gunther Novel)

When Bernie Gunther takes on a blackmail case and gets involved in the affairs of British spies, the former detective risks exposing his own dark past in this thrilling novel hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “one of Kerr’s best.”   Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 1956. Having gone into hiding in the French Riviera, Bernie Gunther is working as a concierge at the Grand-Hôtel under a false name. His days and nights consist of maneuvering drunks to their rooms, shooing away prostitutes in search of trade, and answering the mindless questions posed by the absurdly rich guests—needles... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399185194
• ASIN: 0399185194
• ISBN: 0399185194
• Brand: PUTNAM
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

March Violets: A Bernie Gunther Novel

THE FIRST NOVEL IN PHILIP KERR’S ACCLAIMED HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES   When private investigator Bernie Gunther agrees to track down some stolen jewels, his search takes him down the dangerous streets of pre-World War 2 Berlin and into the path of the most influential players in Nazi Germany…   Wisecracking cop turned private investigator Bernie Gunther specializes in missing persons, and as the Third Reich’s power has grown, Bernie has become a very busy man. But as he takes on cases involving millionaire industrialists, stolen diamonds, and Hitler’s most powerful cronies, Bernie fi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142004146
• ASIN: 0142004146
• ISBN: 0142004146
• Brand: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

The One from the Other: A Bernie Gunther Novel

In the fourth mystery in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series, Bernie Gunther—a former policeman and reluctant SS offier—attempts to start over in the aftermath of World War 2 and quickly learns that the past is never far behind you...Berlin, 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat, Germany is a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, and fleeing Nazis. For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become far too dangerous. After being forced to serve in the SS in the killing fields of Ukraine, Bernie has moved to Munich to reestablish himself as a private investigator. Business is slow and his funds ar... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143112295
• ASIN: 0143112295
• ISBN: 0143112295
• Brand: Kerr, Philip
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

A Man Without Breath: A Bernie Gunther Novel

Bernie Gunther enters a dangerous battleground when he investigates crimes on the Eastern Front at the height of World War 2 in this gripping historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Philip Kerr.Berlin, 1943. A month has passed since Stalingrad. Though Hitler insists Germany is winning the war, morale is low and commanders on the ground know better. Then Berlin learns of a Red massacre of Polish troops near Smolensk, Russia. In a rare instance of agreement, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels want irrefutable evidence of this Russian atrocity. And so Bernie Gun... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143125133
• ASIN: 0143125133
• ISBN: 0143125133
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Pale Criminal: A Bernie Gunther Novel

Hard-boiled detective Bernie Gunther takes on a depraved serial killer terrorizing 1930's Berlin in the second gripping mystery in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling series.In the sweltering summer heat wave of 1938, the German people anxiously await the outcome of the Munich conference, wondering whether Hitler will plunge Europe into another war. Meanwhile, private investigator Bernie Gunther has taken on two cases involving blackmail. The first victim is a rich widow. The second is Bernie himself.Having been caught framing an innocent Jew for a series of vicious murders, the Kripo�... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142004154
• ASIN: 0142004154
• ISBN: 9780142004159
• Brand: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Prague Fatale: A Bernie Gunther Novel

Former detective and reluctant SS officer Bernie Gunther must infiltrate a brutal world of spies, partisan terrorists, and high-level traitors in this “clever and compelling”(The Daily Beast) New York Times bestseller from Philip Kerr.Berlin, 1941. Bernie is back from the Eastern Front, once again working homicide in Berlin's Kripo and answering to Reinhard Heydrich, a man he both detests and fears. Heydrich has been newly named Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. Tipped off that there is an assassin in his midst, he orders Bernie to join him at his country estate outside Prague, where he h... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143122843
• ASIN: 0143122843
• ISBN: 0143122843
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Greeks Bearing Gifts (A Bernie Gunther Novel)

An NPR Book of the YearA Crime Reads Best Crime Book of 2018A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series.Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages "Christoph Ganz" to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece.Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 039917706X
• ASIN: 039917706X
• ISBN: 039917706X
• Brand: Marian Wood Books/Putnam
• Manufacturer: Marian Wood Books/Putnam

Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem

• ASIN: 0140231706
• ASIN: 0140231706
• ISBN: 0140231706
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Prussian Blue (A Bernie Gunther Novel)

When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany’s defeat in World War 2...   The French Riviera, 1956: Bernie’s old and dangerous adversary Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice—and he’s not on holiday. Mielke is calling in a debt and wants Bernie to travel to London to poison a female agent they’ve both had dealings with. But Bernie isn't keen on assassinating anyone. In an attempt to dodge his Stasi handler—former K... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399177051
• ASIN: 0399177051
• ISBN: 0399177051
• Brand: MARIAN WOOD BKS PUTNAM
• Manufacturer: Marian Wood Books/Putnam

The Lady from Zagreb (A Bernie Gunther Novel)

In this Edgar® Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling series, former detective and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther is on the hunt for a beautiful femme fatale... Berlin, 1942. Three players take the stage. The first, a gorgeous actress—the rising star of a giant German film company controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The second, the very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels—a close confidant of Hitler, ambitious schemer, and flagrant libertine. Finally, there's Bernie Gunther—a former Berlin homicide bull now forced to run er... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399167641
• ASIN: 0399167641
• ISBN: 0399167641
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Accomplice: A Novel

From “master of the genre” (The Washington Post) Joseph Kanon, a heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead, the rogue CIA agent on his trail, and the beautiful woman connected to them both. Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz—nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max’s family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501121421
• ASIN: 1501121421
• ISBN: 1501121421
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Field Gray : A Bernie Gunther Novel

Kerr delivers a novel with the noir sensibility of Raymond Chandler, the real politik of vintage John le Carr, and the dark moral vision of Graham Greene. "A thriller that will challenge preconceptions and stimulate

• UPC: 16691788
• Rating: 3.55

The One from the Other : A Bernie Gunther Novel

Bernie Gunther, Kerr's beloved protagonist, takes center stage in this fast-paced, twist-filled historical thriller that turns his acclaimed German trilogy into a surprise-laden

• UPC: 10178069
• Rating: 3.714

The Pale Criminal : A Bernie Gunther Novel

Originally published: Great Britain: Viking,

• UPC: 3523805

Metropolis

New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. A portrait of Bernie Gunther in his twenties: He's young, but he's seen

• UPC: 202029231

Berlin Noir : The First Three Bernie Gunther Novels

Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. And even

• UPC: 518216

A Philosophical Investigation : A Novel

When the English government mandates genetic testing for predisposition to violence, it also creates an elaborate computer network to store the results. A computer expert decides to protect the rest of society by killing off

• UPC: 13246146
• Rating: 3.167

A Quiet Flame : A Bernie Gunther Novel

Bernie Gunther is in Argentina, circa 1950, where he--falsely accused of Naziwar crimes--has been offered a new life. But the tough detective doesn't havethe luxury of laying low when a serial killer--whose crimes may reach

• UPC: 11985573
• Rating: 4.364

Greeks Bearing Gifts

"Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages 'Christof Ganz' to take a job as

• UPC: 292052394
• Rating: 4.0

Metacomet's War : A Novel of King Philip's War

Metacomet's War: A Novel of King Philip's

• UPC: 12571958
• Rating: 3.333

Dark Matter : The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton: A Novel

In 1696, Christopher Ellis is assigned as an aide to Sir Isaac Newton, warden of the Royal Mint, to uncover a counterfeiting ring, but they soon discover that the counterfeiters are part of a plot

• UPC: 2169724
• Rating: 4.0