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27. I just started The War Pianist by Mandy Robothan
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 07:00 PM
Mar 2023

uly, 1940
Blitz-ridden London: Marnie Fern’s life is torn apart when her grandfather is killed in an air raid. But once she discovers that he’d been working undercover as a radio operative – or pianist – for the Dutch resistance, Marnie knows she must complete his mission – no matter the cost…

Nazi-occupied Amsterdam: At the other end of the wireless, fellow pianist Corrie Bakker is caught in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to keep her loved ones out of the line of fire – even if it means sacrificing herself…

Bound together by the invisible wires of their radios, the two women lead parallel lives in their home cities, as both are betrayed by those they trust the most. But when the Nazis close in on one of them, only the other can save her…

This is one of those "I read the sample and I had to have it" I can already tell that I ama going to like this book a lot. Bonus I have another of hers in my collection!

Last week I read Devil's Den: A Seth Armitage Thriller.
Gettysburg, June 1923.

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the bloody battle, the corpse of a Yankee veteran is found in Devil’s Den, the battlefield’s most notorious slaughter pen.

Seth Armitage, a shell-shocked World War I veteran working for the US Bureau of Investigation is assigned to the case by the Bureau’s corrupt director, who is being undermined by an ambitious young deputy - J. Edgar Hoover.

The homicide victim leads Armitage to Peggy Stewart, daughter of another veteran with her own dark secrets.

Armitage's investigation uncovers more murdered soldiers and a dormant assassination conspiracy from the previous century that has been awakened with lethal consequences.

Aided by aviator Charles Lindbergh, Armitage races against time to unravel the mystery of who is killing the Civil War survivors.

After a climactic aerial battle, Armitage returns to the old blood-soaked battlefield believing he has closed the case.

But the sins of the past are not quite laid to rest.

This one kept me up at night! There is a sequel and I will be reading it soon.

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I just started The War Pianist by Mandy Robothan yellowdogintexas Mar 2023 #27
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