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  • Published: 18 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241976012
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

March Violets



Newly repackaged edition of the first in the iconic Bernie Gunther Berlin series.

Bernhard Gunther is a private eye, specializing in missing persons. And in Hitler's Berlin, he's never short of work . . .

Winter 1936. A man and his wife have been shot dead in their bed. The woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with her life.

As Bernie follows the trail into the cesspit that is Nazi Germany, he's forced to confront a horrifying conspiracy. One that takes him to the very heart of the administration, and, finally, to Dachau . . .

Stylishly written and powerfully evocative, March Violets transports readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduces a private eye in the great tradition of Hammett and Chandler.

  • Published: 18 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241976012
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1956, and lives in London. He is the author if March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem, A Philosophical Investigation, Dead Meat (shown on television as Grushko), Gridiron and Esau.

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Praise for March Violets

'Wonderfully sharp and satirical'

Times

'Fast-paced, laconic, unpredictable, and witty'

Evening Standard

'An impressive debut'

Guardian
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