1. March Violets
Berlin, 1936. Former policeman Bernie Gunther works as a private detective in a city where Nazi power has transformed both ordinary crime and the institutions meant to investigate it. A wealthy industrialist hires him after the murder of his daughter and son-in-law, apparently during a burglary…
2. The Pale Criminal
Berlin, 1938. Bernie Gunther is occupied with a blackmail investigation when a series of murders brings him back into police work. Several missing schoolgirls have been found dead, and the regime’s obsession with their Aryan appearance ensures that the case receives attention denied to many other…
3. German Requiem
Post-war Vienna is divided among the Allied powers when Bernie Gunther is asked to help an old Kripo colleague accused of murdering an American officer. The city may no longer be under Nazi rule, but occupation authorities, Soviet security services and former Nazis have created a…
4. The One from the Other
Munich, 1949. Bernie Gunther is working as a private investigator in a Germany crowded with displaced people, former Nazis, black-market operators and fugitives trying to reinvent themselves. His cases often involve tracing stolen property or cleaning up wartime histories for clients who would rather their pasts…
5. A Quiet Flame
Buenos Aires, 1950. Bernie Gunther has escaped post-war Europe only to discover that Argentina’s apparent refuge is crowded with former Nazis, collaborators and officials willing to protect them. When a girl is murdered in circumstances that resemble an unsolved case from his years as a Berlin…
6. If the Dead Rise Not
Berlin, 1934. Bernie Gunther has left the criminal police rather than serve comfortably under the Nazis and is working as house detective at the Adlon Hotel. With the city preparing for the 1936 Olympic Games, two deaths—one involving a businessman, the other a Jewish boxer—lead him…
7. Field Grey
In 1954 Bernie Gunther is working in Cuba and spying on Meyer Lansky for Cuban intelligence when he decides the job has become too dangerous. His attempt to escape by boat ends with arrest, imprisonment on the Isle of Pines and interrogation by a French intelligence…
8. Prague Fatale
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDBernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse. He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is obliged to drop everything…
9. A Man without Breath
Berlin, March 1943. After the German defeat at Stalingrad, Bernie Gunther is working for the War Crimes Bureau when mass graves are discovered in the Katyn Forest. The victims appear to be Polish officers, and Joseph Goebbels sees the site as an opportunity to prove Soviet…
10. The Lady from Zagreb
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDSummer, 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke . . . One year…
11. The Other Side of Silence
Blackmail, espionage and a mass murderer from his wartime past await Bernie Gunther on the French Riviera.'A brilliantly twisting tale of espionage and betrayal' Sunday TimesTHE FRENCH RIVIERA, 1956.A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep…
12. Prussian Blue
France, 1956. Bernie Gunther refuses an assignment from an East German intelligence officer and immediately becomes a hunted man. As he tries to cross Europe towards safety in West Berlin, the pursuit forces him to remember an earlier case from 1939, when he was ordered to…
13. Greeks Bearing Gifts
Munich, 1957. Bernie Gunther has moved into yet another post-war career, this time working for an insurance company that values the same ability to detect lies he once used as a policeman. He is sent to Athens to investigate a German claimant whose boat has sunk…
14. Metropolis
Berlin detective Bernie Gunther bows out at last in the 14th and final book of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series. With an introduction by Ian Rankin.'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN…