Philip Kerr

Con la primera novela de Philip Kerr, Violetas de marzo, también debutó su peculiar detective, Bernie Gunther, un exagente de la Kripo -la temida policía criminal del III Reich- especializado en buscar a personas desaparecidas. En su Trilogia berlinesa, Kerr combina magistralmente el genero negro con el escenario historico del auge y el hundimiento del nacionalsocialismo. Su trabajo de documentacion sobre la Alemania nazi es impresionante, y abarca desde las costumbres y la cultura hasta la historia y la politica. El Holocausto y la guerra aparecen recreados con crudeza en este peregrinaje del investigador privado por la ciudad de Berlin, el frente ruso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la Viena de la posguerra.

Otra magistral investigación carismático detective Bernie Gunther.Año 1950. Gunther deja Berlín huyendo de una absurda acusación y llega a Buenos Aires. Allí se entera del brutal asesinato de una joven, que guarda inquietantes similitudes con otro caso que el investigo cuando era policia en Alemania. La coincidencia en el metodo no puede ser una simple casualidad. En la Argentina de Peron, muchos criminales nazis han encontrado refugio y probablemente hay que buscar al culpable entre ellos. A regañadientes, Gunther aceptara ayudar a la policia argentina a atrapar al criminal antes de que vuelva a matar.

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo. Bernie's first task is to investigate the Silesian Station killings - four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. All of them have been hit over the head with a hammer and then scalped with a sharp knife. Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another prostitute is murdered. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer. Then a second series of murders begins - of crippled wartime veterans who beg in the city's streets. It seems that someone is determined to clean up Berlin of anyone less than perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's ...

Un absorbente thriller histórico sobre política, ciencia y religión en el Londres de finales del siglo XVII por uno de los autores más icónicos del género negro. En 1696, Christopher Ellis, un impetuoso joven aficionado a los naipes y a las mujeres, es enviado a la Torre de Londres, pero no como prisionero. Gracias a un inesperado giro del destino, Ellis se convierte en el nuevo ayudante de sir Isaac Newton, el renombrado cientifico que es ademas el encargado de perseguir a los falsificadores que amenazan con derrumbar la economia inglesa. Con la aguda perspicacia de Newton y la habilidad de Ellis con la espada, la peculiar pareja de detectives se prepara para resolver el caso. Sin embargo, cuando sus pesquisas los conducen hasta un misterioso mensaje codificado sobre un cadaver escondido en la Torre de los Leones, los dos investigadores se daran cuenta de que se esta urdiendo algo mucho mas siniestro.

Bernie Gunther era un policía en Berlín que, tras la llegada de Hitler al poder, se vio obligado a abandonar el cuerpo para no sentirse cómplice de un gobierno que detesta. Ahora, en 1936, se gana la vida como detective privado resolviendo casos como el que le acaba de llegar. Un poderoso magnate quiere que encuentre un valioso collar de diamantes que ya ha causado la muerte de su hija y su yerno. Aunque el movil inicial aparentemente es el robo, Gunther descubre que los brutales asesinatos esconden algo mas y que el rastro conduce a algunos nombres importantes de la Alemania nazi.

En 1928, Berlín vive sus últimos días de desenfreno antes de la caída de la República de Weimar. En medio de toda esa vorágine, se encuentra Bernie Gunther, un joven policía que acaba de incorporarse al equipo de Homicidios. Su primer trabajo consiste en investigar las muertes de unas prostitutas a las que les han arrancado el cuero cabelludo. Cuando apenas ha empezado a estudiar el caso, aparece un nuevo cadaver. Y poco despues, salen a la luz los ataques criminales a otro grupo marginal: el de los veteranos de guerra tullidos que malviven en la ciudad. Ante la indiferencia general, Gunther es uno de los pocos que cree que todo el mundo merece justicia.En la ultima novela que escribio, Philip Kerr explora los origenes de Bernie Gunther, su personaje mas emblematico. En un Berlin decadente en el que los nazis ya han iniciado su imparable ascenso, Gunther se convierte en un detective de Homicidios marcado por el oscuro destino de su pais.

Philip Kerr es uno de los maestros de la novela de intriga ambientada en la Alemania nazi. Esta entrega de la serie del detective Bernie Gunther transcurre en 1949, en el Berlín de la posguerra. Harto de ocuparse del hotel de su suegro, situado a un paso del campo de concentracion de Dachau, en Alemania, y con su esposa ingresada en una institucion mental, Gunther decide ir tras los pasos de un famoso sadico, uno de los muchos espias de las SS capaz de infiltrarse entre las filas de los aliados y encontrar refugio en America. Pero, por supuesto, nada sera lo que parece, y pronto se encontrara sumergido en una investigacion que se inmiscuira con organizaciones secretas constituidas con el objetivo de facilitar la huida a los verdugos del Tercer Reich.

The rolling strip across the bottom of the screen shouts the news: BESTSELLING NOVELIST JOHN HOUSTON'S WIFE FOUND MURDERED AT THEIR LUXURY APARTMENT IN MONACO. Houston is the richest writer in the world, a book factory publishing many bestsellers a year - so many that he can't possibly write them himself. He has a team that feeds off his talent; ghost writers, agents, publishers. So when he decides to take a year out to write something of quality, a novel that will win prizes and critical acclaim, a lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods. Now Houston, the prime suspect in his wife's murder, has disappeared. He owns a boat and has a pilot's licence - he could be anywhere and there are many who'd like to find him. First there's the police. If he's innocent, why did he flee? Then again, maybe he was set up by one of his enemies. The scenario reads like the plot of one of Houston's million-copy-selling thrillers...

A chilling modern horror story in which the source of the horror is totally unexpected - and utterly terrifying. Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. Once a religious man, now his job makes him question the existence of a God who could allow the violence he sees every day. Gil is asked to investigate a series of unexplained deaths of victims known for their liberal views. When a woman tells Gil that these men have been killed by prayer, he questions her sanity. Yet the evidence mounts that there might be something in what she says, even more so when Gil finds that his own life is on the line.

A chilling modern horror story in which the source of the horror is totally unexpected - and utterly terrifying. Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. Once a religious man, now his job makes him question the existence of a God who could allow the violence he sees every day. Gil is asked to investigate a series of unexplained deaths of victims known for their liberal views. When a woman tells Gil that these men have been killed by prayer, he questions her sanity. Yet the evidence mounts that there might be something in what she says, even more so when Gil finds that his own life is on the line.

Gil Martins, an agent with the FBIs Domestic Terrorism Unit in Houston, confronts the violence generated by extremism within our nations borders every day. He sees hatred and destruction wrought by every kind of ism there is, and the zealots who kill in their names. Until now, he has always been a part of the solutionhowever imperfecta part of justice. But when Gil discovers he played a key role in wrongly condemning an innocent man to death row, it shakes his faithin the system, in himself, and in Goddeeply. It even estranges him from his wife and son. Desperate, Gil offers up a prayer. To know God is there, not through a sign or physical demonstration but through the strength to cope with his ever-growing, ever-creeping doubts.His problems become more than personal as things heat up in Houston. A serial killer terrorizing the morally righteous turns out to have religious motivations, upping the case from homicide to domestic terrorism. A number of prominent secular icons die or are grievously injured abruptly and under suspicious circumstances, the latest of which is a New Atheist writer whos fallen into an inexplicable coma. Left and right, it seems Gil cant escape the power of God and murder.As Gil investigates both cases, he realizes that there may be a connectionanswering his prayers in a most terrifying way.

München, 1949: een stad waar schimmige handel, hebzucht en vluchtende oorlogsmisdadigers samen komen. Ook na de oorlog is het een plek vol verraad. Privédetectives krijgen heel wat onfrisse zaken aan

If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research...In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston''s supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.Houston is the world''s most successful novelist, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of best-selling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books.And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind those books has some questions for him too...

Everyone knows football is a matter of life and death.But this time, it''s murder.Scot Manson: team coach for London City FC and all-round fixer for the lads. Players love him, bosses trust him.But now the team''s manager has been found dead at their home stadium.Even Scott can''t smooth over murder... but can he catch the killer before he strikes again?

Né à Édimbourg en 1956, Philip Kerr a fait des études de droit avant de devenir journaliste. Il est également l’auteur de romans d’anticipation, de scénarios et de livres pour enfants qui ont rencont

1954. Alors qu''il tente de fuir Cuba en bateau, Bernie Gunther est arrêté par la CIA et transféré à la prison de Landsberg à Berlin. La guerre froide fait rage et les Américains, qui ont besoin d''i