This decidedly noir trilogy about the misadventures of a Nazi-era private detective in Berlin, Bernhard Gunther, harkens back to the novels of Raymond Chandler, from everything I've ever read about Raymond Chandler. But to be honest, if the debt to Chandler had been the only noteworthy thing abou...
I was reading the Bernie Gunther series by the year the books are set in, and then Philip Kerr messed up my attempted timeline with two books that sneakily combined prewar and postwar plots. First, "The One From the Other" (book #4 in the series) turned out to have an intro section set in 1937, w...
Dit boek gaat over een Duitse politieman. Het speelt in 1932 in Berlijn en in 1950 in Argentinië. In Berlijn probeert de hoofdpersoon de moord op te lossen op een 14-jarig meisje. Nazies en de opkomst van Hitler maken alles heel moeilijk. Ook de jodenvervolging start in deze tijd. In Argentinië i...
Another solid offering in the Bernie Gunther series. There's no doubt that Gunther is a complicated "hero," and that comes out more in this book than the others I've read. It absolutely makes him interesting, but he is morally ambiguous. I enjoyed the setting of the book, focusing on the lead-up ...
Winner of the Historical Dagger and #6 in this series, this book never gets beyond tepid. The atmospheric pieces and characters are there but the plot is just not much. I like mysteries that are also thought provoking (e.g. Louise Penny's Three Pines series), but they still need to have a myste...
I was initially skeptical about reading this book due to it clearly being about horses and having never been a 'horse' person. However as soon as I started reading it, it became clear that it was about much more than that. It is a tale of survival, endurance, loyalty, finding a family in those ar...
Quite a refreshing read. This author is not afraid to try new things and changes around the trappings of the long established detective genre, with mixed results. We follow Jake, a protagonist we can freely call a militant lesbian since the author himself does exactly that. To my great relief thi...