The Forest of Souls
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A gripping psychological thriller, taking the reader from 21st century Britain to the darkest days of the war-torn Eastern EuropeA university researcher is brutally murdered while looking into long-hidden archives covering the war years in occupied Byelorussia. A journalist writing an article on war-time refugees from the Eastern Front, stumbles across what he thinks might be a war criminal in hiding.Faith Lange, a post-graduate student, is shocked by the death of her colleague Helen Kovaks and worried by Jake Denbigh, an investigative journalist showing an unhealthy interest in her beloved grandfather. True, Marek Lange refuses to discuss his role during the darkest days of the Nazi occupation, but he's frail and she's determined to protect him.A suspect is arrested for the murder of Kovaks, but are the police taking too simplistic a line? There is a link between Kovaks and another wartime survivor, Sophie Yevanoc, who escaped the horrors of a concentration camp with her unborn child -- now head of Faith's university department. And then there are the enigmatic notes left by Kovaks herself.The murder and its consequences take both on terrifying journeys: Jake to Minsk itself where
Author: Carla Banks
Format: Paperback, 384 pages, 153mm x 234mm, 496 g
Published: 2005, HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Description
A gripping psychological thriller, taking the reader from 21st century Britain to the darkest days of the war-torn Eastern EuropeA university researcher is brutally murdered while looking into long-hidden archives covering the war years in occupied Byelorussia. A journalist writing an article on war-time refugees from the Eastern Front, stumbles across what he thinks might be a war criminal in hiding.Faith Lange, a post-graduate student, is shocked by the death of her colleague Helen Kovaks and worried by Jake Denbigh, an investigative journalist showing an unhealthy interest in her beloved grandfather. True, Marek Lange refuses to discuss his role during the darkest days of the Nazi occupation, but he's frail and she's determined to protect him.A suspect is arrested for the murder of Kovaks, but are the police taking too simplistic a line? There is a link between Kovaks and another wartime survivor, Sophie Yevanoc, who escaped the horrors of a concentration camp with her unborn child -- now head of Faith's university department. And then there are the enigmatic notes left by Kovaks herself.The murder and its consequences take both on terrifying journeys: Jake to Minsk itself where
The Forest of Souls
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