Metropolis
Book description
"[Metropolis is] a perfect goodbye--and first hello--to its hero...Bernie Gunther has, at last, come home."--Washington Post
New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad.
Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten.
In the night…
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This is the last Bernie Gunther novel, in a series that is über noir, and whose protagonist is a police detective who is a member of the SS in Nazi Germany.
In Metropolis, Gunther learns that murder has become the subject of an art movement, Lustmord, or “lust murders” which focused on the brutal, sexual-tinged serial killings of women and prostitutes in 1930s Berlin.
A scene in the book of a famous German expressionist sketching a murder victim in the morgue is all the more chilling, since I know it to be true. I’ve been fascinated with the…
From Nina's list on a peak into the world of art and artists.
Set in the Weimar Republic of post-WWI Germany (think the musical Cabaret), Kerr’s Berlin is tawdry and raw. Bernie Gunther is a homicide detective tracking down a serial killer who is murdering maimed WWI veterans—legless men begging on wheels called cripple-carts or klutz wagons. Told in first person, Gunther’s observations about his surroundings are harrowing. “On summer nights, the Tiergarten sometimes looked like a stud farm, there were so many whores copulating on the grass with their clients…Violent murders were commonplace.” The smells, tastes, and sounds of the place hit me full force and made a distant time and…
From Laurie's list on immersive settings of time and place.
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