If spirituals express the soul of a people whose unimaginable enslavement in the united states birthed a genre of song that communicates hope, love, forgiveness, longing, sorrow, and the promise of eternal life with god, then eileen guenther s book, in their own words expresses the soul of the story itself. Before he starting writing fiction, archer worked as an editor, researcher, photographer and journalist. Bernard gunther is a former soldier he fought with the wehrmacht on the turkish front in the first. Bernie gunther is the central character in a series of historical mysterythriller novels by british novelist philip kerr. Philip kerrs last novel and a new series from alexander mccall. The books followed the exploits of bernie gunther, a detective with a penchant for finding missing people. Though wary of being typecast as a onenote author, mr. Slave life and the power of spirituals eileen guenther, eileen guenther on. Marilyn stasios crime column features bernie gunthers final appearance in berlin and introduces a delightfully eccentric swedish sleuth. Appie knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right but something goes wrong when 14year old kevin bartlett disappears. It was his first book to write and the book was named open season. The genesis book of the series was done and published in 1988. In this story, we find spenser trying to uncover the mystery of a teenagers disappearance.
The second book was published about two years later. Bernie fought on the turkish front during world war i and was a cop before becoming a private eye in berlin before world war ii. Archer mayor is an american author of detective fiction and mystery novels. Philip kerr, 62, author of gunther crime novels, is dead the new. Mayor spends much of his time researching his novels, meanwhile working as. His business is heating up due to the rise of the nazi party. Bernard gunther is a former soldier he fought with the wehrmacht on the turkish front in the first world war and an excop an inspector for the kriminalpolizei now working as a private eye in the preworld war ii years of berlin, specializing in the missing persons. The second book in the spenser series is called god save the child. Bernie gunther is the central character in a series of historical mysterythriller novels by british. Due to the rise of national socialism, business is coming along nicely, thank. His death on friday was confirmed by his publisher. Kerr, to keep his fans satisfied, ended up writing novels about a detective in. Tributes poured in on social media for the awardwinning author who penned a series of. The joe gunther series by archer mayor has a total of twenty five novels that are all available online.
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