Philip Kerr

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

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

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

"One of the most appealing detectives in the field"