A review by tuomosuominen
The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr

5.0

I found The Pale Criminal every bit as good as March Violets, continuing the noir detective story set in Berlin, 1938. Bernie Gunther drops one enjoyably hardboiled parable after the other, the characters are rich and deep, the gallery of notable Nazis is as well portrayed as in the previous book. The plot is both chillingly terrifying and deliciously twisty, with fantastically surprising finale. As with March Violets, this also was an Audible Audio Edition, and Jeff Harding again did a fantastic reading of the book. Since I'm reading these in the order of the year they're set, Prague Fatale, set in 1941, will be my next Bernie Gunther book (while in fact it's book 8 in the series).