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A Place of Strangers

When a successful TV journalist returns for Christmas to the decaying Tudor mansion where his step-parents live something is not right. Approaching death, they are reserved and enigmatic, as if they are determined to take one last secret with them to the grave.

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He suspects that they have lied to him about who his real parents were - and what happened to them.

And so begins an investigation that will reveal his past - and determine his future.

As he digs deeper, he starts to uncover a terrifying conspiracy - one of murder and revenge, with its roots in the greatest crime in history, the Holocaust.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages

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