Philip Kerr: The Pale Criminal (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
A series of horrific ritual murders leads Bernie Gunther to an occult conspiracy at the very heart of the Nazi Party - hard-boiled noir thriller for fans of Raymond Chandler and John le Carré

The second in Philip Kerr's internationally bestselling and acclaimed Bernie Gunther series of thrillers, available for the first time as an individual ebook.

Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have been found dead. But unlike the undesirables who make up the majority of dead and missing people in Hitler's Berlin, these girls were blonde and blue-eyed - the Aryan flower of German maidenhood - and their gruesome deaths recall ritual killings.

Busy with a blackmail case, Bernie is reluctant when he is asked to rejoin the Berlin police in order to track down the murderer. But when the person doing the asking is none other than head of the SD, Reinhard Heydrich, it's not exactly a request he can turn down. As Bernie gets closer to the truth, he realises that at the heart of this case is much more than one lone madman - in fact, there is a conspiracy at work more chilling than he could ever have imagined.

Philip Kerr: The Pale Criminal. A Bernie Gunther Thriller. Quercus eBook, ISBN: 9781786480880 (March, 2016), 2209 KB (276 p.), £4.99.

Philip Kerr: The Pale Criminal (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
The second of the classic Berlin Noir mysteries
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. In this second book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, The Pale Criminal brings back Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he¹d seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin -- until he turned freelance and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. Hard-hitting, fast-paced, and richly detailed, The Pale Criminal is noir writing at its blackest and best.

Philip Kerr: The Pale Criminal. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0142004154 (July, 2005), 273 S., $14.00.

Philip Kerr: The Pale Criminal (UK 1991)

From the Publisher:
A brutal murderer on the streets is not unusual for Berlin in 1938. But this one is killing young Aryan girls and the Jew who has been framed proves innocent. Private Eye Bernie Gunther finds himself on the trail of the killer, and must pursue some very high-powered suspects.

Philip Kerr: The Pale Criminal. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140153934 (October, 1991), 272 S., £3.99.