A Berlin Story (Nice Girl Does Noir Book 2)
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His time at Northamptonshire grammar proved happier, and he returned to it for speech days. Though he had wanted to study English at Birmingham University, Kerr bowed to paternal pressure and took up law. After a year in a kibbutz, Kerr returned to Birmingham for a postgraduate degree in jurisprudence.
After he left law, work as an advertising copywriter included a spell at Saatchi and Saatchi — though he had a tendency to get fired. By the time Gridiron was published he was married to the journalist and author Jane Thynne, whom he had met while he was working as a gossip columnist on the London Evening Standard, and with whom he had three children, William, Charlie and Naomi.
Though the film rights to Gridiron and other novels were sold, none made it further than development. The author regarded his relationship with Hollywood with wry amusement and enjoyed recounting anecdotes about La La Land. His commitment to research led him into dangerous situations, sometimes in the seamier areas of Berlin, or as when travelling with the St Petersburg police for Dead Meat , his thriller set among the Russian mafia. One particularly frightening day ended with the discovery of holes in the flak jacket he had been wearing.
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Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I wandered into this author via some Amazon or Goodreads recommendations. I am a WWII buff and like detective stories so seemed worth a look. This was a 3 pack of the first 3 books in the series. Our hero is former police detective Bernie Gunther, now a private investigator.
A Berlin Story (Nice Girl Does Noir Book 2) - Kindle edition by Libby Fischer Hellmann. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or. This short story first appeared in the SHOW BUSINESS IS MURDER A Berlin Story (Nice Girl Does Noir) The time of World War Two has always resonated with me – I can't think of another . There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
He is well drawn, doesn't like the Nazi's but doesn't want to get killed or put in a concentration camp. These books really catch the vibe of pre-war and post-war Germany. Bernie has to confront various moral dilemmas as he tries to survive these crazy and oppressive times.
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Historical characters like Goering and Heydrich are involved in the first 2 books, but in a way that I found believable. Beautiful, but troubled women are in all three books true to this genre's form. The secondary characters are interesting as well. Bernie is a dogged investigator and it is a good read as he follows the evidence where it leads no matter how dangerous. March Violets takes place in around the time of the Berlin Olympics. A disappearance, and double murder draw him to the highest levels of the Nazi government.
A Pale Criminal takes place in Berlin in and around Hitler's occupation of the Sudetenland. Life in Berlin continues to deteriorate as Bernie is pressed back into the police department to head up a team that tracks down a serial killer.
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A German Requiem takes place in post war Berlin and Vienna in Bernie is enlisted by the Russians to see if he can clear a colleague from the 2nd book of the murder of an American intelligence officer. This one had the most twists and turns and we find out a little bit of how Bernie survives the war without getting involved in the atrocities. These are dark, in the noir style, but there is plenty of humor as well.
There is a bit of graphic violence, not too much though. I think that the first one, March Violets was my favorite, but I liked them all. Israel Drazin Top Contributor: Philip Kerr is an excellent best-selling British author of over thirty books.
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He was born in and is the winner of the Historical Dagger Award. Twelve of his thirty books focus on Bernie Gunther, an ex-German-policeman who is now a private detective who needs to stay ahead of the Nazi SS and Gestapo. Berlin Noir is his most popular book. It has in it three of Bernie Gunther's first novels. The Bernie Gunther books contain good mysteries that occur in Germany while the country is being managed by brutal Nazis.
Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals disappear daily, including Bernie's love, a woman who is not Jewish, a gypsy, or lesbian. Jews are forced to sell their possessions for far less than their value in the hope to get enough money to escape Germany. Set the Night on Fire. The Day Miriam Hirsch Disappeared. Fiction River Special Edition: The Whole World Is Watching.
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