Philip Kerr
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old djinn twins Philippa and John and their friend Dybbuk have further adventures as they travel the world in search of a priceless talisman.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers. The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956 and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge. As it happens, a local writer needs just that, someone to fill the...
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John have more adventures when they become involved in an international adventure involving the Blue Djinn, the supreme arbiter of all Djinn.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 6
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old djinn twins John and Philippa travel from the Himalayas to Yellowstone National Park seeking to uncover and protect five holy men before the wicked djinn responsible for upsetting the balance of the world's luck finds them.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 7
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
While volcanoes erupt around the world, djinn twins John and Philippa, with their parents, Uncle Nimrod, and Groanin, face evil when they try to stop the wicked djinn trying to rob the grave of Genghis Khan.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 4
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After getting help for their father, who is cursed with rapid aging, twelve-year-old djinn twins John and Philippa and friends travel through the spirit world in search of Faustina, the only one who can keep their mother from becoming the Blue Djinn, and discover a link to museum thefts and hauntings throughout the word.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Djinn twins John and Philippa, along with their Uncle Nimrod, travel to the Amazon jungle to try to recover a stolen collection of rare Incan artifacts.
11) Metropolis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. A portrait of Bernie Gunther in his twenties: He's young, but he's seen four bloody years of trench warfare. And he's not stupid. So when he receives a promotion and a ticket out of Vice squad, he knows he's not really leaving behind the criminal gangs, the perverse sex clubs, and the laundry...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages "Christoph Ganz" to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece. Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war. Witzel's claimed...
Author
Series
Bernhard Gunther mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Detective Bernie Gunther flees to Perón-era Argentina in the wake of wrongful accusations about his war time activities and reluctantly investigates the double case of a murdered girl and a missing banker's daughter.