Beattie's Book Blog

A beautifully paced and carefully-drawn evocation of a war-weary society, and a police force dependent on over-retirement age detectives pitched against a pitiless criminal. Publisher: Macmillan Philip Kerr IF THE DEAD RISE NOT Judges' comments: Bernard Gunther, ex-Berlin cop, now house detective in the first-class Hotel Adlon as Nazi power becomes unstoppable, grapples with murder, corruption and the politics involved with Berlin's 1936 hosting of the Olympic Games. ...