March Violets
Bernie Gunther, Book 1
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March Violets
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Keeble
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By:
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Philip Kerr
About this listen
Brutal ex-convicts or the Nazi elite - in Bernie Gunther's world it's hard to tell who are the real gangsters. Hard-boiled noir thriller for fans of Raymond Chandler and John le Carré.
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. When Hermann Goering himself calls Bernie in with a task for him that throws his existing case into a whole new light, he must weigh up his hatred of the Nazis against his desire to stay alive.
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- A Descendant of Scotsmen
- 14-04-2022
A tad stereotypical, but…
…a good read (or listen to be precise) with Jonathan Keeble - whom I got to know and admire from the Simon Scarrow “Eagles of the Empire” series - the prefect narrator. A good insight into the underside of pre-war Germany, and Bernie ticks every gumshoe box, but isn’t that half the fun…
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- Frank Love
- 23-10-2023
Marlowe in Berlin
Berlin Noir starts here. Phillip Kerr inserts the hard-boiled noir detective to the brutal streets of 1930s Berlin. A clever plot and a wisecracking and deeply flawed protagonist in Bernie Gunther make for a compelling read.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Amanda Vermeulen
- 08-10-2023
Predictable, disparaging and sexist
The novel's protagonist is bombastic, patronising, misogynistic and lacking in any appealing personal attributes and yet is apparently devastatingly attractive to intelligent and accomplished women. Such lazy, predictable and one-dimensional characterisation makes this shallow gum shoe an unconvincing flawed hero
Example of his crassness: He says at that the only thing worse than going to bed with an ugly woman is waking up next to an ugly woman.
Facile and unfunny dialogue like this, on top of a humdrum plot with superficial characters, made March Violets an irritating listen, despite Jonathan Keebler's usual outstanding narration.
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