"The Other Side of Silence" writer Kerr's new book is another story about Bernie Gunther. It's now 1956, and Gunther, who is working as a concierge at the Grand Hotel on the French Riviera, is coerced into killing an agent in London. When Bernie runs into Friedrich Korsch, a former Gestapo homicide detective whom Bernie knew when he was part of the SS, Bernie thinks back to a murder case he and Friedrich were ordered to solve in 1939. Reading this book is like "getting lost in another world," Schluep says.
