A Dark Song of Blood (53 page)
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Authors: Ben Pastor
At the bridge, where the crowd funneled nearly to a stop, he turned back, and slowly, bustled by the wave still mounting the opposite way, over rose-carpeted streets he retraced his steps home.
by Ben Pastor
LUMEN
£8.99/$14.95 ⢠ISBN PB 978-1904738-664 ⢠eB 978-1904738-695
October 1939, Cracow, Nazi-occupied Poland. Wehrmacht Captain Martin Bora discovers the abbess, Mother Kazimierza, shot dead in her convent garden. Her alleged power to see the future has brought her a devoted following. But her work and motto, “Lumen Christi Adiuva Nos”, appear also, it transpires, to have brought her some enemies. Stunned by the violence of the occupation and the ideology of his colleagues, Bora's sense of Prussian duty is tested to breaking point. The interference of seductive actress Ewa Kowalska does not help matters.
“Pastor's plot is well crafted, her prose sharp... a disturbing mix of detection and reflection.”
Publishers Weekly
LIAR MOON
£8.99/$14.95 ⢠ISBN PB 978-1904738-824 ⢠eB 978-1904738-831
September 1943. The Italian government has switched sides and declared war on Germany. Italy is divided, the North controlled by the Fascists, the South liberated by Allied forces slowly fighting their way up the peninsula. Wehrmacht major and aristocrat Martin Bora is ordered to investigate the murder of a local Fascist: a bizarre death, threatening to discredit the regime's public image. The prime suspect is the victim's twenty-eight-year-old widow Clara.
“Atmospheric, ambitious and cleverly plotted,
Liar Moon
is an original and memorable crime thriller.”
Crime Time