A Quiet Flame

Bernie Gunther is at it again in this 5th Bernie Gunther series novel! This famous Berlin homicide detective is investigating a 1950 case in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that's intimately connected to one large and several connected cases in 1932 Berlin. The cases in both countries are ripe with terror and information that could end Bernie's career and life. Bernie, a sleuth well-respected by his Berlin peers, is asked to investigate... Read Full Review

Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series was originally just one stand alone book. Then he wrote another. Then one more. That became the Berlin Noir trilogy. It remained so, just those 3 books, for 15 years. Fortunately Kerr decided to bring Bernie back. This latest book is the 5th in the series and Kerr is writing more. This one opens as some Nazi war criminals are fleeing to Argentina. The year is 1950 and former Berlin homicide... Read Full Review

In 1950 former Berlin police detective Bernie Gunther is stunned when he is accused of war crimes as he loathed the Nazis. Knowing the atmosphere is one of shoot first, he obtains haven in Argentina alongside many other Germans, almost all Nazis. In Buenos Aires he begins to start his new life when local cop Colonel Montalban asks him to investigate the brutal murder of teenage Grete Wohlauf. The police officer points out... Read Full Review

Philip Kerr started his career in novels with the three Chandleresque Bernie Gunther books - March Violets, The Pale Criminal, and A German Requiem - stories that developed an outstanding main protagonist, ambivalent, complicated and deep; wove intricate and believeable plots involving fascinatingly drawn characters from the Nazi time; mastered the atmosphere in the cities (Berlin, Vienna, Buenos Aires, Munich) he wrote about;... Read Full Review