I highly recommend "Black out" by the British filmmaker John
Lawton, Phillip Kerr's excellent WWII trilogy (collected as
Berlin Noir), and the St-Cyr / Kohler novels by J. Robert
Janes.
"Black out" is the first book in the Troy series where
Frederick Troy, a young police officer and great character,
tries to find out why scientists working on a secret project
are disappearing and dying. Their fate has something to do
with one of the nastier villains in recent fiction, a rogue
American OSS agent, but it isn't until the war is over that
Troy discovers the truth in ruined Berlin.
The Berlin PI Bernie Gunther is the famous character in
Phillip Kerr's trilogy "Berlin Noir". In the first novel
"March Violets"
(1936), the ex-policeman Bernie Gunther has been hired to
look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In
"The Pale Criminal", it's 1938, and Gunther has to rejoin the
police because of Heydrich´s order. And in "A German
Requiem", PI Bernie Gunther has his third appearance in the
wreckage of postwar Berlin. The Berlin Noir trilogy contains
a lot of Chandleresque prose, and these three mysteries are
exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany -
with Gunther´s walk at a fine line between the SS, the
Gestapo and his clients.
Detectives Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the French Surete and Hermann
Kohler, a Gestapo agent, are an unlikely team of detectives
in Occupied France, developed by the Canadian author J.
Robert Janes. The novels are excellent, and "Sandman" was
chosen by the New York Times as one of the best mysteries of
1997.
Best regards Claus
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