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Now published in one paperback volume, these three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany -- richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In The Pale Criminal, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in A German Requiem, the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more death than he imagines. (For a review of Kerr's latest novel, The Grid, see our Thrillers section.)

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This book is part of the "Bernie Gunther" series.
Here are some other books from this series:

The Pale Criminal First published 1990 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:1.9/10

The One from the Other First published 2006 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:2.6/10

A Man Without Breath First published 2013 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:1.8/10

A German Requiem First published 1991 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:1.8/10

March Violets First published 1989 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:2.5/10

A Quiet Flame Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:2.4/10

If the Dead Rise Not Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:2.2/10

Field Gray First published 2010 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:2.2/10

The Lady from Zagreb Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:1.5/10

Prussian Blue Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:1.8/10

Prague Fatale First published 2011 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:2.2/10

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