A Five Year Plan

Literature & Fiction

KERR, PHILIP

Contemporary

Hutchinson

Mountaineer Jack Furness comes across a fossilized fragment of skull in Nepal which defies classification. With Stella, he sets off to discover other skeletons, or even living examples of the fabled yeti. What they discover has chilling consequences for Jack and Stella.

Esau

Vintage

Ray Richardson, a brilliant architechnologist, has created "The Gridiron" in the heart of LA. Every aspect of the building is controlled by an intricate computer system, but after two bizarre deaths, on the eve of the official opening, the computer reveals itself as set to destroy its creators.

Gridiron

Genre Fiction

Dead Meat

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Set in 1936, against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to power, this tense thriller begins with Bernhard Gunther's investigation into the disappearance of a diamond necklace. But nothing is simple in this corrupt landscape, and Bernie soon finds himself caught in a web of Nazi politics and organized crime.

March Violets (Crime, Penguin)

Penguin??Books

Bernie Gunther, the private eye hero of the author's previous novels, gets involved in the murky world of Cold War intrigue. The plot concerns various ex-Nazis who save their skins by working for US Intelligence. The author also wrote "March Violets" and "The Pale Criminal".

A German Requiem

Literary

Bernie Gunther is back on the mean streets of Berlin with his new partner, Bruno Stahlecker, another ex-police officer. But on a seemingly straightforward stakeout, Bruno is killed, and Bernie suddenly finds himself tapped for a much bigger job. A serial sex murderer is killing Aryan teenage girls in Berlin—and what's worse, he's making utter fools of the police. Gunther is forced to accept a temporary post in Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich's state Security Service, with a team of men underneath him tasked purely with hunting the killer. But can he trust his team any more than he can trust his superiors?

The Pale Criminal (Crime, Penguin)

Humans have always been economical with the truth. This anthology surveys some of the world's greatest deceits from the monumental lies of history.

Penguin Book Of Lies

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Uk

The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities seem lily-white in comparison.

A German Requiem (Crime, Penguin)

Now in one volume—the first three novels in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling historical mystery series starring hard-boiled detective Bernie Gunther... “A Chandleresque knight errant caught in insane historical surroundings. Bernie walks down streets so mean that nobody can stay alive and remain truly clean.”—John Powers, Fresh Air (NPR) Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison... This collection includes: MARCH VIOLETS THE PALE CRIMINAL A GERMAN REQUIEM

Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem

G.P.Putnam's Sons

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