Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930's Berlin. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison.
From the award-winning crime thriller writer, dive into the first three novels of iconic detective Bernie Gunther series, perfect for fans of Robert Harris and Frederick Forsythe.
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MARCH VIOLETS
Winter, 1936. Specializing in missing persons cases, private eye and former cop Bernhard Gunther is never short of work in Hitler's Berlin.
When a man and his wife are shot dead in their bed, and their home burned, the woman's millionaire father wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life. Desperate for answers, he turns to Bernhard Gunther for help.
As Bernie follows the trail into the very heart of Nazi Germany, he's forced to confront a horrifying conspiracy. A trail that ends in the hell that is Dachau . . .
THE PALE CRIMINAL
It's 1938 and detective Bernie Gunther is back on the mean streets of Berlin with his new partner, ex-police officer Bruno Stahlecker. But on a seemingly straightforward stakeout, Bruno is killed, and Bernie suddenly finds himself tapped for a much bigger job.
A serial killer is murdering Aryan teenage girls in Berlin - and what's worse, he's making utter fools of the police.
When the head of the state Security Service, Reinhard Heydrich, asks Bernie to rejoin the Berlin police force, he is forced to accept, working with a team of men underneath him tasked purely with hunting the killer.
But can he trust his team any more than he can trust his superiors?
A GERMAN REQUIEM
In the bitter winter of 1947 the Russian Zone is closing ever more tightly around Berlin.
When an enigmatic Russian colonel asks Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna, where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge, Bernie doesn't hesitate for long. Gunther is convinced that shooting an American Nazi-hunter is one crime he didn't commit.
But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie expects it to be. Communism is the new enemy, and with the Nuremberg trials over, some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace - alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison.
