Annotation: This is the first book in Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr. This Berlin Noir takes us into the winter of 1936 Berlin, Germany where a man and his wife is killed in their bed and their priceless diamond disappeared. A wealthy industrialist hires a private detective to solve the mystery where Bernhard Gunther, a hard-boiled detective is put to the job who specialises in tracking down missing persons. What started as a good opportunity for Gunther takes him to the places he could only imagine in dreams, it's the time of the rise of Hitler, hatred towards Jews and Aryan racial superiority, fights with Gestapo agents all revealed in this fast paced crime thriller fiction.
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