In Memoriam

22 Feb 1956 – 23 March 2018

On Fri 23^rd March 2018 the criminal offense writing community were notified of the sorry decease of Scottish criminal offense author Philip Kerr past times his married adult woman novelist Jane Thynne via Twitter.

Philip Kerr was best known for his Bernie Gunther novels with the outset 1 inward the series March Violets existence published inward 1989. March Violets introduced readers to his sardonic, tough talking old soldier who fought inward World War I on the Turkish Front too equally good an ex-cop. Gunther went on to run equally a individual oculus inward the pre World War II. The series blended fact too fiction too laid generally inward Berlin, equally Gunther carried out investigations against the backdrop of the ascent of the Nazis, whose accomplish he is e'er trying to escape.

In March Violets Bernhard Gunther is a individual eye, specializing inward missing persons. And inward Hitler's Berlin, he's never curt of work... Winter 1936. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 human too his married adult woman shot dead inward their bed. The woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants jurist - too the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life. As Bernie follows the trail into the really pump of Nazi Germany, he's forced to facial expression upwards a horrifying conspiracy.

March Violets was followed past times The Pale Criminal which was published inward 1990 too A German linguistic communication Requiem inward 1991. The outset 3 novels after became known equally The Berlin Trilogy too were published equally such inward 2012.

In 1992 his standalone novel A Philosophical Investigation was published. Set inward London 2013: a globe inward which series murder has reached epidemic proportions.

Tested positively past times the authorities equally 1 disposed to criminal violence, a series killer breaks into the reckoner to erase his name, where he discovers a listing of others thus defendant too hits on the horrifying idea: what if he were to instruct a killer of series killers? A Philosophical Investigation was good received on publication with the narrative unfolding from a dual perspective. The killer's existence told inward outset someone too the detective's is told inward third.

This was followed inward 1993 with Dead Meat too Gridiron inward 1995, The Shot inward 1999, Dark Matter (2002), Hitler’s Peace (2012) alongside others. The close recent standalone existence The Most Frightening Story Ever Told inward 2016.

He returned to the Bernie Gunther novels after a xv twelvemonth gap with The One From the Other inward 2006. This was followed past times A Quiet Flame (2008), If the Dead Rise Not (2009), Field Grey (2010), Prague Fatale (2011), A Man Without Breath (2013), The Lady from Zagreb (2015), The Other Side of Silence (2016) too Prussian Blue inward 2017. His novel If The Dead Not Rise won the Crime Writers Association Ellis Peters Historical Award inward 2009 equally good equally the Premio RBA de Novela Negra. It equally good won the Barry Award for Best British Novel. The novels Field Grey, The Lady of Zaregb too Prussian Blue were all shortlisted for an Edgar Award for Best Novel inward 2012, 2016 too 2018 respectively.

The latest mass inward the Bernie Gunther series Greeks Bearing Gifts is due to hold upwards published inward Apr this year. In Greeks Bearing Gifts, it is Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a novel name, a fleck on his shoulder, too a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt too encourages “Christoph Ganz” to accept a project equally a claims adjuster inward a major German linguistic communication insurance companionship with a customer inward Athens, Greece. Under the embrace of his novel identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim past times Siegfried Witzel, a brutish old Wehrmacht soldier who served inward Hellenic Republic during the war. Witzel’s claimed losses are large , and, fifty-fifty worse, they may hold upwards the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to facial expression upwards Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse inward his place. Enter Lieutenant Leventis, who recognises inward this example the highly grotesque agency of a killer he investigated during the tiptop of the war. Back then, a immature Leventis suspected an S.S. officeholder whose connecter to the German linguistic communication authorities made him untouchable. He’s kept that man’s cite inward his retention all these years, waiting for his instant guide chances at justice… Working together, Leventis too Bernie promise to lay their cases–new too old–to bed. But there’s a much to a greater extent than sinister truth to acknowledge: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 killer has returned to Athens…one who may guide maintain never left.

Between 2014 too 2015 3 books inward the Scott Manson thriller series were equally good written. The outset inward the series January Window (2014) introduced readers to Scott Manson a squad rider vehicle for a London football game gild too all-round fixer. This was followed past times Hand of God too False Nine both inward 2015.

He was equally good wrote children’s novels using the cite P B Kerr equally good equally a issue of non-fiction books nether his ain name.

Over the years Shots guide maintain reviewed a issue of his books including The Other Side of Silence, Hand of God, The Lady of Zaregb, A Man Without Breath, Prague Fatale too Field Grey.

According to his publishers Quercus, Philip finished a fourteenth Bernie Gunther novel Metropolis, which volition hold upwards published inward the U.K. too U.S. side past times side year

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A 2011 interview on the Shots website tin hold upwards institute here. The Guardian guide maintain equally good reported on his death.

His passing is a non bad loss to thus many; his family, authors too readers. He volition hold upwards alone missed.

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