The Tenth Witness
(Mystery)
By Leonard Rosen
ISBN #978-1579623197
Price $29.00
288 Page (Hardcover)
Rating 5-Stars
“Engrossing!”
Henri Poincare, a few
years out of university and working as an engineer, meets a young German woman
where he has built a platform above a sunken ship. The two are smitten with
each other, but Henri discovers she is one of the heirs to the Kraus Steel
fortune. As their relationship becomes close, he also discovers there may be
hidden secrets behind her deceased father’s business. A Nazi during Germany’s
troubled past, he had built tanks and weapons for Hitler using slave labor in
which thousands had perished, and millions murdered. Was someone in the company
trying to protect those secrets, even to the point of more murder?
This is a love story, a
coming-of-age story, a murder mystery, and a discovery tale of horror, torture,
and death at the camps during the height of Hitler’s power. Poincare’s adopted
uncle dies, and he begins searching the past to learn about a man he barely
knew, only to discover the connection to Kraus Steel, and the family of the
woman he loves.
The story was a prequel
to “All Cry Chaos”, and takes place prior to Poincare becoming an agent of
Interpol. Well written, with believable characters keep this mystery
entertaining, and the reader feels the horror as it comes to light before the
young engineer. The author did his research, and though the tale is fiction,
the acts were not. It’s a story steeped in history and brutality: a story of
how people treated others, and the consequences of their deeds.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
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