FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 18, 2015
CONTACT: Tamra Ingersoll, 623-930-2964, Public Information Office
BRITISH AUTHOR PHILIP KERR SIGNS NEWEST DETECTIVE NOVEL
Residents can meet renowned author at Glendale’s Main Library
Glendale, Ariz. –– Don't miss award-winning British author Philip Kerr when he makes the last stop
on his U.S. tour to discuss and sign his tenth Bernie Gunther detective novel, “The Lady from Zagreb,” at the
Glendale Main Library, 5959 W. Brown St., at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15.
Set in WWII-era Germany and Croatia, “The Lady from Zagreb” features “A beautiful actress, a
rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very
clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister—close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant
libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide bull, now forced to do favors for Joseph Goebbels at
the Propaganda Minister’s command.”
Philip Kerr has won the British Crime Writers Association’s Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime
Fiction and Spain's RBA International Prize for Crime Writing. He has also been a finalist for the Shamus
Award for Best Hardcover Fiction. “Field Gray,” the seventh in the Bernie Gunther series, was a finalist for
the 2012 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel. In addition to his detective series, he is
the author of several standalone thrillers, as well as young adult books in the Children of the Lamp series
under the pen name of P.B. Kerr. Noted screenwriter Peter Straughan, the writer behind films such as
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and BBC's acclaimed “Wolf Hall” miniseries, is reported to be working on a
Berlin Noir pilot for HBO and Playtone (Tom Hanks' production company) based on the Bernie Gunther
series. For more information, visit the author’s website at www.philipkerr.org.
Kerr will spend time signing books following the discussion. Attendees can also purchase his books
following the event. For more information, call (623) 930-3440.
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