Blogs in January 1970

A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther 9) 1st January 1970

It is winter, 1943. Bernie Gunther has left the Criminal Police and is working for the German War Crimes Bureau based in Berlin. Reports have been circulating of a mass grave hidden in a wood near Smolensk. The grave’s...

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The Past Lies Waiting 1st January 1970

A British man dies in a fire at a remote farmhouse in the Tuscan hills. A drifter, Joe Vardy, is charged with murder. He says he’s innocent — and claims the dead man’s diaries hold the clue to the...

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The Other Typist 1st January 1970

New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin. Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working for her bread as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side....

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The Charlemagne Persuit 1st January 1970

Ex-agent Cotton Malone wants to know what really happened to his father, officially lost at sea when his submarine went down in the north Atlantic in 1971. But when he uses his government contacts to obtain the submarine’s sealed...

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Crossers 1st January 1970

When Gil Castle loses his wife, he retreats to his family’s sprawling homestead out west, a forsaken part of the country where drug lords have more power than police. Here Castle begins to rebuild his life, even as he...

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