Very sad and unexpected news for today. The Scottish Writer Philip kerr He passed away yesterday from cancer just a month after his 62nd birthday. His best known creatures, the detective Bernie gunther and the coach Scott manson all his thousands of admirers have been left orphans and, without a doubt, very desolate. From here, and like all lovers of the black genre in particular, I am sorry for your loss and I remember this author with the review of his successful work. Rest in peace, Mr. Kerr. 

Philip kerr

Born in Edinburgh, studied at the University of Birmingham and earned a Master of Laws in 1980. He also worked as a copywriter before turning to writing in 1989. It was a result of the success of March violets, the first title of his best-known series, that of the detective Bernie gunther, set in Nazi Germany. What's more, Kerr also published essay and Juvenile novel under the pseudonym of PB Kerr, as The enigma of Akhenaten, The Blue Djinn of Babylon o The king cobra of Kathmandu.

Also very fond of sport and football in particular, he had started a new saga developed in this environment with the coach Scott manson as the protagonist, but without leaving the black tone.

Bernie Gunther Series

Former Kripo police officer and Bernhard investigator Bernie Gunther was born in 1989 with March violets, which took place in 1936. with the Nazis trying to show the world a presentable face on the occasion of the JJ. OO. It was the first part of the cult trilogy Berlin noir, which also make up Pale criminal y German Requiem.

Gunther is ironic and cynical, harsh yet honest in a world where honesty, justice or humanity are concepts that are conspicuous by their absence. It was sergeant in World War I and won the Second Class Iron Cross. His first wife died of the flu and he left the police in 1933, for not tolerating Goering's purges or communing with the regime.

We know it with 38 years and working as private detective with an office on Alexanderplatz. He is dedicated to looking for missing people, usually Jews killed or sent to concentration camps. But then you will have to go back to the police. Later, after the Second World War in which he will be on the Russian front and will be captured, will remarry and will move to South America.

All novels have a enormous degree of detail in its setting and they are accurate portraits of the different eras that Gunther is going through.

1. March violets
2. Pale criminal
3. German Requiem
4. One for another
5. A mysterious flame
6. If the dead are not raised. It was RBA Black Novel Award.
7. Campaign gray.
8. Deadly Prague.
9. A man out of breath.
10. The lady from Zagreb.
11. The other side of silence.
12. Prussian Blue, not published in Spanish.
13. Greek Bearing Gifts, not published in Spanish.

Scott Manson Series

Set in the football world, its protagonist is Scott Manson, a coach of a team of the Premier League. He was a professional soccer player for Arsenal. He spent 18 months in the cárcel for a violation that he did not commit and there he learned to fight and also not to feel too much sympathy for the police. He lives in London and is divorced, but he is dating Louise Considine, an inspector for the London Metropolitan Police.

This series recreates the ins and outs of a big club, the dirtiest that surrounds it and that exists in football, with its financial scandals, unclear operations or examples of those players who become broken toys. He dares even with homosexuality in the locker room and, in general, with all those magnified feelings that awakens the passion for football. It also relies on real facts and data and everything goes through the classic investigation of an event.

1. Winter market.
2. The hand of God.

Other novels

1. A philosophical investigation.
2. Deadly charge.
3. The digital hell.
4. Esau.
5. Five-year plan.
6. The second angel.
7. Within range.