Philip Kerr is the author of seven other acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels. If the Dead Rise Not won the 2009 CWA Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical Crime Novel. Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh and now lives in London.
Once again Kerr leads us through the fact of history and the vagaries of human nature One of the greatest master story-tellers in English Nods to Poirot suggest Kerr set himself the challenge of working the Holocaust into an Agatha Christie-style country house mystery. If so, he has pulled it off with aplomb - Sunday Times Somehow Mr Kerr just gets better and better - Telegraph This is a locked-room murder, worthy of Agatha Christie - Independent