A German Requiem

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1956 and lives in London. As a freelance journalist he has written for a number of newspapers and magazines. March Violets, his first novel featuring private eye Bernie Gunther, was published to critical acclaim in 1989. The second novel in this sequence, The Pale Criminal, and an anthology, The Penguin Book of Lies, were both published in 1990.