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Ashes in the Snow
(Paperback)
Oriana Ramunno; Translated by Katherine Gregor
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A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the
Christmas of 1943. A young Jewish prisoner... Auschwitz, 1943. It's
snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele
Errera, a young Jewish boy imprisoned in the camp, finds the body
of an SS officer. A detective with everything to prove... Hugo
Fischer is sent to investigate the unexplained death of the
renowned Nazi. But Hugo is hiding a secret - he is suffering from a
degenerative disease. The only way for him to survive is to give
his support to the Reich and hide his condition. A confrontation
with pure evil... In Auschwitz, Hugo comes face to face not only
with a complex murder, but with a truth - that of the Final
Solution. And he is forced to decide what is most important to him
- and who, if anyone, he should try to save...
The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot-legendary star of
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the
Nile-returns to solve a fiendish new mystery. Hercule Poirot is
travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive
Kingfisher Hill estate, where Richard Devonport has summoned him to
prove that his fiancee, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his
brother, Frank. But there is a strange condition attached to this
request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there. The
coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off,
insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered.
Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being
harmed, Poirot's curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later
confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached...
Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be
clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And if
Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save
her from the gallows?
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