Description
In this riveting historical mystery novel from New York Times bestselling author Philip Kerr, Bernie Gunther trails a serial killer in 1950's Buenos Aires...
Buenos Aires, 1950. After being falsely accused of war crimes, Bernie Gunther--like the Nazis he has always despised--has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Per n government. But the tough, fast-talking ex-Berlin detective doesn't have the luxury of laying low. The local police pressure Bernie into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up gruesomely mutilated. What's more, her murder just might be linked to a missing German banker's daughter and a long-unsolved case Bernie worked back in Berlin before the war. After all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentina's shores--state-licensed murderers and torturers--so why couldn't a serial killer be among them?
Author: Philip Kerr
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 02/23/2010
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780143116486
ISBN10: 0143116487
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Crime
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical
- Fiction | Thrillers | Historical
Buenos Aires, 1950. After being falsely accused of war crimes, Bernie Gunther--like the Nazis he has always despised--has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Per n government. But the tough, fast-talking ex-Berlin detective doesn't have the luxury of laying low. The local police pressure Bernie into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up gruesomely mutilated. What's more, her murder just might be linked to a missing German banker's daughter and a long-unsolved case Bernie worked back in Berlin before the war. After all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentina's shores--state-licensed murderers and torturers--so why couldn't a serial killer be among them?
Author: Philip Kerr
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 02/23/2010
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780143116486
ISBN10: 0143116487
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Crime
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical
- Fiction | Thrillers | Historical
About the Author
Philip Kerr was the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels, three of which--Field Gray, The Lady from Zagreb, and Prussian Blue--were finalists for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Kerr also won several Shamus Awards and the British Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction. Just before his death in 2018, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. As P.B. Kerr, he was the author of the much-loved young adult fantasy series Children of the Lamp.