(2/3 finished) Berlin Noir Trilogy - Philip Kerr

March Violets
The Pale Criminal
A German Requiem

A trilogy set in Berlin starring a PI, spanning the lead-up to WW2 and then jumping to life after it. I'm pretty much ambivalent about these books. They were interesting for certain historical aspects but nothing really jumped out and grabbed me. I read the first two pretty much back-to-back; March Violets was stronger than The Pale Criminal. I got around twenty pages into A German Requiem and then for some reason put it down and didn't pick it up again. I will probably do so, if only for completion's sake, but The Pale Criminal just wasn't very... interesting. Well, it had interesting points, I suppose, and it tried to resolve loose threads from March Violets, but it didn't really hold me. It's worth reading these if you're into the noir genre though since I think they fit well within that canon. I think one of my main problems with the series was how unsympathetic I found every single character, even the mostly-benign protagonist.

Eh. After I finish A German Requiem I probably won't re-read these.