A Brother's Blood
by Michael C. White
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Edgar Award Finalist: A German comes to Maine to investigate his brother's long-forgotten murder. Dieter Kallick fought for Rommel in North Africa, doing his duty to the Fatherland right up until he was captured by American GIs. He and his comrades had been told stories of the savagery of the Americans, but when he arrived at the work camp in Maine, he was surprised to find the countryside beautiful and the people kind. In the summer of 1944, he worked in a logging camp in the backwoods of show more New England, befriending a quiet young girl named Libby Pelletier. She is the only one to mourn Dieter when he dies. Fifty years later, Libby's memories of the logging camp are stirred when Dieter's brother Wolfgang appears seeking information about Dieter's death. His questions puncture the placid surface of this small, rural town, and soon lead to another murder. To find the truth behind these two killings, Libby will have to learn to put the past to rest. show lessTags
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Good story of a past crime and a single Maine woman’s search for truth. Involves German prisoners in Maine during WW II and the present. Somewhat like foreign mysteries I have seen on TV but very well written.
Compelling mystery, with an unlikely narrator, set (as are the best) in the human heart.
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Michael C. White is a professor of English, as well as, the founder and director of the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program at Fairfield University. He is the founding editor of the annual fiction anthology American Fiction, as well as Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. In addition to a collection of shorts stories, entitled Marked show more Men, White has written numerous novels. They include: The Garden of Martyrs, A Brother's Blood, Beautiful Assassin, Soul Catcher, A Dream of Wolves and The Blind Side of the Heart. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Brother's Blood
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Wolfgang Kallick; Libby Pelletier
- Important places
- Maine, USA
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- 118
- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 1
