Levels within levels of secrecy confuse and obfuscate a crime!

Blood Vengeance (Warsaw Quartet #3) by Douglas Jackson        

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Investigator Jan Lalisz is surprised to find himself secretly taken from occupied Poland and dropped into a SOE and Commando training camp in Arisaig in the northwest Scottish highlands. It’s December, 1943.

Why’s he here? It’s political. All about keeping the London Polish Resistance and their Warsaw counterpart on side. Churchill wants a Polish detective to investigate the death of the Polish resistance officer Krystina Kowolska, known as the Raven. Krystina’s been found hanging from a tree. Nothing really to see here but…?

What Jan uncovers is not one but two murders, rumors, gossip and groups of people who have had free rein and are none too pleased to be called to account for anything.

Blood vengeance is a complicated miasma of agents, of strong feelings and beliefs. Jan is deliberately lead away from the truth for many different reasons.

He’s on a very tight timeline trying to solve the case before questions are asked in Warsaw. 

On the home front, Jan’s wife Maria and son Stefan face an implacable enemy and find themselves taking steps they’d never considered possible.

Blood Vengeance brings us back into Polish detective Jan Lalisz’s orbit in a confronting and thrilling World War II read!

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Many thanks to the author and publisher.