BERNIE GUNTHER - a German cop who has moved from the Nazi 1930s to the post-war period, with mixed loyalties but a strong sense of duty which often gets him into trouble. A QUIET FLAME was his 5th outing and IF THE DEAD RISE NOT appears next in September.
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Bernie Gunther returns this time finding himself on a journey to South America where not only refugees from the Second World War have fled but also the Nazi’s trying to evade capture for their crimes. Kerr creates an atmosphere of the old Noir classics and Gunther is an old fashioned cop you know is on the side of what is right. Kerr produces great characters and interesting plotlines, adding in real life characters to give a very authentic feel to the storyline.
Bernie Gunther series:
1. March Violets (1989)
2. The Pale Criminal (1990)
3. A German Requiem (1991)
4. The One From the Other (2006)
5. A Quiet Flame (2009)
Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie’s final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve.
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Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie’s final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police.
A Quiet Flame features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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A Quiet Flame was written by Philip Kerr and published by Quercus Publishing Plc
A Quiet Flame has 413 pages
Yes it is part of A Bernie Gunther Mystery series
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