An elderly man has fallen down and struck his forehead on something.
Unfortunately, he died in the snow and cold. Inspector Michael Green
has some doubts despite the autopsy showing death from natural causes.
He decides to begin an investigation.
Green’s initial feeling about the family of the deceased is that there is something strange about them.
After the weekend Green takes DS Brian Sullivan with him to Renfrew to
check into the deceased’s police record. They are surprised to find out
that the deceased was Polish, not British like his wife. Going through
the deceased’s rural home they find identity papers that appear to be
German, Wehrmacht in fact.
As Green’s investigation progresses, he finds that there could be a
connection to the Holocaust. Was the deceased a survivor or was there
something else to his story? Had this become a personal quest of
Green’s because he was also Jewish?
Author Barbara Fradkin takes the story of one old man and ties it in
with the stories of two other old men and their connected past.
Inspector Green has a lot of travelling to do before he can make the
connections. A good, quick read.
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