Bernie Gunther Novel March Violets: A Bernie Gunther Novel, Book 1, (Paperback)

from smik

The setting is Berlin in 1936, and Berlin is readying for the Olympic Games. Gunther's secretary Dagmarr is getting married to a member of the National Socialist Flying Corps. When Gunther returns to his office after the wedding he finds a dark blue Mercedes convertible waiting for him. Its occup...

from BooksForDinner

Very good modern noir. This was a little harsher at times than I expected, in the language and descriptions, surprised a bit at times. Also, It seemed the last 20 pages are a pretty enormous part of the book and kind of just tacked on? It's almost like a completely different book. Odd. Still, ver...

from countrylife

March Violets is my first 'noir' read, and I have to say that I really enjoyed this stark, dark crime fiction tale set in 1930s Berlin. The aura of the place and time swirled like fog through the story. I enjoyed the audio version and found the narration very well done. I will definitely read mor...

from tmph

Just a great series. You got your terrible enemy (Hitler!), hard-boiled detective hero, a little love, and some very moving passages.

from winedrunksea

Had its moments, but the stylized prose, mixed with our narrator's tedious objectification (in that same terrible corkscrew English) of literally every female character he meets, got real tiresome.