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Houston publishes so many books a year that he can't possibly write them himself. He has a ghost team; writers, agents, publishers. So when he takes a year out to write something of quality, a novel that will win prizes, a lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods. Now Houston, the prime suspect in his wife's murder, has disappeared. He could be anywhere and there are many who'd like to find him.

Everyone knows football is a matter of life and death. But this time, it's murder. Scott Manson is team coach for London City football club. He's also their all-round fixer - he gets the lads into training, and out of trouble, keeps the wags at bay and the press in his pocket. But now London City manager Joao Zarco is dead, killed at his team's beloved stadium at Silvertown Docks. Even Scott Manson can't smooth over murder... but can he catch the killer before he strikes again?

Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award, 2007.
Ex-SS cop and Russian POW Bernie Gunther is making his way back to Munich in 1949 to resurrect his career as a PI. Munich's a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, fleeing war criminals, and all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. It's also a place where a private eye can find a lot of not quite reputable work. A woman seeks him out. Her husband has disappeared. She's not looking to get him back - she just wants confirmation that he's dead.

A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie's final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve. Circumstances lead the chief of police in Buenos Aires to suppose that the murderer may be one of several thousand ex Nazis who have fetched up in Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who better than Bernie Gunther to help him track that murderer down?

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just 18 months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations - a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer.

In postwar Vienna, the term peace is relative - the Americans, British and Russians govern the city in an uneasy truce, and the main difference is that now it's the Soviet secret police making people disappear rather than the Nazis. When Bernie is asked by a high-ranking Soviet official to clear an old Kripo colleague's name of the murder of an American officer, he quickly realises he's in over his head.

Munich, 1949, is home to all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a private eye can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-to-do locals, abetting fugitives in the flight abroad, sorting out rival claims to stolen goods. It's work that fills Bernie with disgust - but it also fills his sorely depleted wallet. Then a woman seeks him out. Her husband has disappeared. She's not looking to get him back - he's a wanted man who ran one of the most vicious concentration camps in Poland.

Ex-Berlin cop and private detective Bernie Gunther has seen his share of bad guys. But when the worst guys of all are the ones running the show, it's much harder to stay out of their reach. Hired by a wealthy industrialist to investigate the murder of his daughter and her husband in an apparent botched robbery, Bernie soon finds himself drawn into the complex - not to mention lethal - internal politics and corruption of the Nazi party.

Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have been found dead. But unlike the undesirables who make up the majority of dead and missing people in Hitler's Berlin, these girls were blonde and blue-eyed - the Aryan flower of German maidenhood - and their gruesome deaths recall ritual killings.

Berlin, 1928. Les corps de quatre prostituées sont retrouvés massacrés dans le même quartier. Bernie Gunther, jeune flic idéaliste à la brigade des mœurs est invité à rejoindre le chef de la Kripo pour enquêter sur cette sinistre affaire. Alors que ces meurtres laissent la population indifférente, le père de l'une des victimes, un chef de la pègre très influent, est prêt à tout pour se venger de l'assassin de sa fille.

Munich, 1957. Bernie Gunther a désormais une nouvelle identité et met son expérience de policier au service d'une compagnie d'assurances après avoir quitté son poste à la morgue. On l'envoie à Athènes, où un bateau appartenant à Siegfried Witzel, un ancien soldat de la Wehrmacht, a coulé. Flanqué d'un assistant peu téméraire, Bernie a tout juste le temps de rencontrer l'Allemand que ce dernier est retrouvé mort.

Une nouvelle enquête de Bernie Gunther. Quand, en septembre 1941, Bernie Gunther revient du front russe, la capitale du Reich a bien changé. Pénurie, rationnement, couvre-feu, crimes... Berlin rime avec misère et terreur. La découverte d’un cadavre sur une voie de chemin de fer puis l’agression d’une jeune femme précipitent Bernie, affecté au département des homicides de la sinistre Kripo, dans de nouvelles enquêtes criminelles.

Mars 1943. Le Reich vient de perdre Stalingrad. Pour Joseph Goebbels, il faut absolument redonner le moral à l'armée allemande et porter un coup aux Alliés. Or sur le territoire soviétique, près de la frontière biélorusse, à Smolensk, ville occupée par les Allemands depuis 1941, la rumeur enfle. Des milliers de soldats polonais auraient été assassinés et enterrés dans des fosses communes.

Été 1943. Joseph Goebbels, ministre chargé de la propagande, demande à Bernie Gunther de retrouver la splendide Dalia Dresner, étoile montante du cinéma allemand en fuite à Zurich. Le détective ne peut refuser. Très vite, cette mission, à priori aussi engageante que l'objet de la recherche, prend un tour bien sinistre. Le père de la belle est un Croate antisémite de la première heure, sadique notoire, qui dirige un camp de concentration, tristement célèbre, de la région.

1956. À peine remis des émotions des Pièges de l'exil, Bernie Gunther doit s'enfuir pour sauver sa peau : le marché que lui impose Erich Mielke, numéro deux de la Stasi, est inacceptable. Du cap Ferrat à Sarrebrück, sa cavale héroïque sera semée d'embuches. 1939. Parallèlement, selon une de ces constructions virtuoses dont il a le secret, Philip Kerr nous emmène à Berchtesgaden, où Hitler est attendu pour son cinquantième anniversaire. Quand un ingénieur est assassiné sur la terrasse du Berghof, le nid d'aigle du Führer, c'est la panique : jamais au grand jamais ce sacrilège ne doit être rendu public.

Septembre 1938. Tandis que les Berlinois attendent avec anxiété l'issue de la conférence de Munich, Bernie Gunther tente de retrouver l'individu qui fait chanter la riche veuve qui l'a engagé. Jusqu'à ce qu'il soit contraint par Reinhard Heydrich, l'adjoint d'Himmler, de diriger une enquête traquant le tueur en série qui s'attaque à des adolescentes dans les rues de Berlin.

Football manager Scott Manson needs a new job, but finding one in the star-studded world of international football isn't easy. A new position in Shanghai turns out to be part of an elaborate sting operation - and in Barcelona, he's not hired as a football manager but as a detective. Barca's star player is missing, and Scott has a month to track him down. As Scott follows the trail from Paris to Antigua, he encounters the rotten heart of the beautiful game....

Ancien policier, Bernie Gunther, trente-huit ans, est devenu détective privé, spécialisé dans la recherche des personnes disparues. Et on disparaît beaucoup, à Berlin, en cet été 1936 où les S.A., à la veille des Jeux Olympiques, se chargent, à leur manière, de rendre la ville "accueillante" aux touristes.

The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956, and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge. As it happens, a local writer needs just that - someone to fill the fourth seat in a regular game that is the usual evening diversion at the Villa Mauresque. Not just any writer. Perhaps the richest and most famous living writer in the world: W. Somerset Maugham.

From New York Times-best-selling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther, our compromised former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer. With his cover blown, he is waiting for the next move in the cat-and-mouse game that, even a decade after Germany's defeat, continues to shadow his life.