Name: Research: A Dark and Witty Thriller From the Creator of the Prize-Winning Bernie Gunther Novels
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Author: Philip Kerr
ISBN: 9781529414028

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Research: A Dark and Witty Thriller From the Creator of the Prize-Winning Bernie Gunther Novels

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Physical Book

Author

Philip Kerr

Publisher

Quercus Publishing

Synopsis "Research: A Dark and Witty Thriller From the Creator of the Prize-Winning Bernie Gunther Novels "

Set in the South of France, a fiendishly clever thriller about the back-stabbing literary world, from the bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series of prize-winning historical novels.Robert Harris's THE GHOST meets Patricia HighsmithIf you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research... or pay someone else to do it for you. In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.Houston is the world's most successful thriller writer, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of bestselling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books.And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind those books has some questions for him too...

Philip Kerr

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Philip Kerr (1956–2018) was a Scottish writer known for his series of historical noir novels featuring detective Bernie Gunther. His literary debut was with March Violets (1989), followed by titles such as The Pale Criminal (1990), A German Requiem (1991), and The One From the Other (2006). Other notable works include Field Grey (2010), Prague Fatale (2011), and Metropolis (2019). Additionally, he wrote standalone novels such as A Philosophical Investigation (1992) and Dark Matter (2002), and the children's series Children of the Lamp under the pseudonym P. B. Kerr

Kerr received several literary awards, including the RBA International Prize for Crime Writing in 2009 for If the Dead Rise Not.

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