March Violets (Bernie Gunther, #1) in Around the World in 80 Books

Aug 22, 2014 Nancy rated it it was ok

Shelves: germany-austria, wwii, 2014-read

Bernie Gunther is a dummkopf, painfully slow on the uptake. So, since I like to be surprised or at least challenged by a thriller and since I found Kerr's evocation of 1936 Berlin both obvious and overdone, this only gets two stars from me and I'm being generous at that. ...more

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Apr 30, 2021 Juliana Philippa rated it really liked it

Shelves: series-book-1, historical-fiction, 0-own, 0-own-in-dead-tree-form, 0-own-avg-rating-3-point-8-plus, series, world-war-ii-fiction, set-in-germany, set-in-1930s, set-in-20th-century

3.75 stars

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Jan 01, 2019 Tony rated it it was amazing

Shelves: crime, novels, war-ww2, setting-europe

Set in Berlin of 1936, this wonderful mystery takes its title from the slang term used to pejoratively to describe those latecomers to Nazism who managed to rise quickly when the party gained power. The private detective is Bernie Gunther, an ex-cop of some renown who resigned rather than get caught up in the internal political tugs of war being waged by Goerring and the like. The writing is brilliant, nearly every page has a sentence which sparkles and demands to be reread--and Kerr captures th ...more

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Apr 18, 2016 Andy Plonka rated it really liked it

Shelves: src

A good series start to a time when Hitler reigned in Germany.

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Jun 16, 2011 Daisy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: germany, ww2

Full of similes. 3.86 stars. Quite entertaining.

The interesting thing about the rich is that they like being told where to get off. They confuse it with honesty. p. 17

I could see that he found me less amusing than a boxful of smoke. p. 87

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