Dazzling reviews for Metropolis across the world from New York to Sydney. ☆☆☆☆☆ Read them below: The Guardian, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Spectator and The Wall Street Journal — THE GUARDIAN “Wonderfully plotted, with elegant prose, witty dialogue, homages to German Expressionism and a strong emotional charge, this is a bittersweet ending to a superb …
Hello from Philip’s wife, Jane,
It’s good to be updating this website after a long silence with the news that in April, a new Philip Kerr novel, Metropolis, will be published. Set in the Weimar years, it takes Bernie right back to his beginnings as a murder squad detective, amid the sordid and chaotic Berlin underground. Infused as ever with his pitch-black humour, it’s an …
Philip Kerr
It was with great sadness that Quercus learned of the death yesterday from cancer at 62 of Philip Kerr, one of its most successful and cherished authors. Philip has left an outstanding body of work: novels such as A Philosophical Investigation and Gridiron, books for which he was selected in 1993 by Granta as one of the Best of Young British Novelists.
The New Yorker – ‘The Third Reich’s Good Cop’
New York Times Book Review – “By the Book” Column by Philip Kerr
New York Times – Review of PRUSSIAN BLUE in Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column
“One of the most appealing detectives in the field.”
Washington Post – Review of PRUSSIAN BLUE
“Brisk and agile… Gunther is one of crime fiction's most gratifyingly melancholy creations, and in 'Prussian Blue' we watch him match wits with the officialdom of two Germanys, pre- and postwar.”
New Yorker – Page Turner Column on Bernie Gunther
“I discovered Philip Kerr, the Scottish detective-novel writer, only recently, and one thing I like about him is that he makes bad behavior look bad again.”