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Title details for Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr - Available

Prague Fatale

Bernie Gunther Series, Book 8

#8 in series

by Philip Kerr
Paul Hecht
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Philip Kerr's thrilling mystery series starring private detective Bernie Gunther has been hailed as "one of the great historical crime series" by Bookmarks Magazine. Set in 1941, Prague Fatale follows Gunther as he investigates a murder at the country estate of his old boss, SD member Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich was throwing a dinner party for senior German officers when the victim was discovered—the body mysteriously locked in a room from the inside.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Bernie Gunther Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 17, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781464040894
      • File size: 387707 KB
      • Duration: 13:27:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 27, 2012
      Kerr’s stellar eighth Bernie Gunther novel (after 2011’s Field Gray) takes the Berlin cop to Prague in October 1941, to investigate the murder of an adjutant of feared SS Gen. Reinhard Heydrich, who’s just become the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The morning after a drunken party attended by SS officers at Heydrich’s country estate outside Prague, the adjutant, who was shaken by what he witnessed as part of a Nazi death squad in Latvia, is found dead in a locked guestroom. Heydrich wants Gunther, suicidal himself after similar experiences in Russia, to find the adjutant’s killer fast, but how is one to identify the culprit amid a house full of professional murderers? A subplot involving the death of a foreigner run over by a train and Czech nationalists dovetails with a surprising denouement worthy of Agatha Christie. Kerr effectively works dark humor into Gunther’s weary narration, and the ending packs the wicked bite his readers have come to anticipate. Agent: Caradoc King, A.P. Watt.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Canadian actor Paul Hecht gives a slow and appropriately cynical reading of Kerr's eighth book featuring Berlin Kriminalpolizei detective Bernie Gunther. In fall 1941, Gunther is recently back from the Ukraine, where he saw the horrors of the Final Solution. He finds himself summoned to a Czech castle surrounded by SS Officers. He's needed to solve a locked- room murder and protect the local Reichsprotektor and Gestapo leader. Hecht is precise when pronouncing German names and terms but without obtrusively overdoing the dialogue. The dry edge he puts into his voice is fitting to the character of Gunther, a man alienated from his own nation during a time of war. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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