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March violets, the first of his bernie gunther novels, appeared in 1989 to wide critical appreciation. Houston is the worlds most successful novelist, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever. Mar 25, 2018 in the intervening years, kerr produced standalone books, starting with the ambitious a philosophical investigation 1992, which married cyberpunk crime with the philosophy of ludwig wittgenstein. Serial killings have reached epidemic proportionseven with the. Beautiful, whipsmart, and driven by demons of her own. If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research.
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