A review by tomfairfax
Berlin Noir: The First Three Bernie Gunther Novels by Philip Kerr

4.0

Meticulously researched, the books centre around the difficulties facing a morally honest detective in Nazi Germany. How do you live with yourself when your client is Heydrich? Intricate plots, period detail and character sketches of real life figures are sadly punctuated and let down by some of the least erotic sex scenes I've ever read and occasionally forced use of slang. It is genre fiction but in a fascinating mileu. Page turning and re-readable.