The Lady from Zagreb

Philip Kerr is CWA Ellis Peters Award winner for this series. The Bernie Gunther books are bestsellers all over the world. In 1942, there are worse places to be than Switzerland, and detective Bernie Gunther has seen most of them. So when he's asked to track down Dalia Dresner - the beautiful rising star of German cinema who's rumoured to be in Zurich - he takes the job. Not that he has much choice: the request comes from Goebbels himself. But this errand proves anything but simple. Bernie hasn't mellowed one iota, and his mordant wit and cynical observations are as sharp as ever. But even as his weary horror at the Nazi regime threatens to overwhelm him, one thing drives him on from Berlin to Zurich to Zagreb: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.