A Quiet Flame
| Author | : Philip Kerr |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2010-02-23 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780143116486 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0143116487 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In this riveting historical mystery novel from New York Times bestselling author Philip Kerr, Bernie Gunther trails a serial killer in 1950’s Buenos Aires... Buenos Aires, 1950. After being falsely accused of war crimes, Bernie Gunther—like the Nazis he has always despised—has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Perón government. But the tough, fast-talking ex-Berlin detective doesn’t have the luxury of laying low. The local police pressure Bernie into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up gruesomely mutilated. What’s more, her murder just might be linked to a missing German banker’s daughter and a long-unsolved case Bernie worked back in Berlin before the war. After all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentina’s shores—state-licensed murderers and torturers—so why couldn’t a serial killer be among them?
