March Violets by Philip Kerr

March Violets by Philip Kerr, Mystery, 246 pages.
Bernie Gunther used to be a cop, so the horrible things he sees now, as a private investigator, don't surprise him much. And as the book is set in Germany in 1936, and a lot of his clients are German Jews trying to locate love-ones, he is getting used to disappointment, and not finding everyone he is looking for, sometimes people just disappear in the new Nazi state. His new client wants him to find a missing piece of jewelry, as the loved-one is already dead. No one who has read more than a handful of thrillers or mysteries really believes the body found in the ashes, burned beyond recognition is really who the characters in the book say it is, but even with that Kerr manages some surprises. A solid mystery, with a believable and engaging setting. I look forward to reading more of the Bernie Gunther stories.