In an ``impressive'' debut mystery novel, Bernhard Gunther is a hard-boiled Berlin detective hired by a wealthy industrialist to find the murderer of his daughter and son-in-law, killed during the ...

Editor's note: Philip Kerr died March 23 after an eight-month battle with cancer, his publisher reported Monday. Kerr was 62 and was internationally famous for his series of novels set in World War II ...

Through nine Philip Kerr novels spanning the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and the subsequent pursuit and prosecution of some of its creators, lead character Bernie Gunther has become an old friend.

Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr is a fictional book in the Bernie Gunther series. This is the eighth book in the series which brings up the question: just how many lives does Bernie Gunther has? When ...

Philip Kerr, a Scottish-born writer whose popular novels feature a Nazi-era detective named Bernie Gunther, whose hard-boiled style made him literary kin to Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler’s classic ...

Bernard Gunther is a Berlin detective, an ex-cop, who specializes in tracking down missing persons, especially Jews. A wealthy industrialist asks Bernie to track down the murderer of his daughter and ...

It is strange, indeed, when a best-selling British author known for Nazi-era detective novels shifts his focus to 21st-century Houston - and God. And not the loving, tender God behind sunshine and ...

One of the many things to admire about Philip Kerr’s long-running Bernie Gunther series is the way the novels seamlessly blend the complex antihero’s personal history with that of Germany before, ...

Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features Bernie Gunther’s final appearance in Berlin and introduces a delightfully eccentric Swedish sleuth. By Marilyn Stasio Three brainy investigators (Lincoln Rhyme, ...

Bernie Gunther, that immortal Berlin cop, is back — which is good news for all readers. He survived Nazi Germany and World War II, not to mention dealings with Hitler’s monsters such as Joseph ...

Mystery writer Philip Kerr, who will be at the St. Louis County Library tonight, is said to be close to turning his books into a mystery series for HBO. Earlier this month, Deadline New York reported: ...