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A review by sistermagpie
The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr
3.0
I decided to give a second Bernie Gunther book a try. It's a fine mystery, though I'm still not completely drawn into the series. The sexist, cynical PI doesn't bother me, but I'm also not really taken with him. Though I still appreciate the central idea of the series. It seems like when the world is going to hell procedurals and mysteries become really appealing because they give such a sense of order. But it's hard to find a place where justice is less important than the one in which Bernie lives, during the rise of Hitler.
This book, for instance, deals with what seems like a serial killer killing young Aryan girls, a crime that whatever the solution, people are going to want to blame on the Jews. You can't help but notice that although the book was not at all written about the US in 2017, it's relevant to it.
This book, for instance, deals with what seems like a serial killer killing young Aryan girls, a crime that whatever the solution, people are going to want to blame on the Jews. You can't help but notice that although the book was not at all written about the US in 2017, it's relevant to it.