Author: charlesbelfoure

From a New York Times bestselling author who “writes like an up-and-coming Ken Follett” (Booklist): Wrongly convicted of a deadly crime, Douglas Layton investigates the tragedy that ruined his life — but can he track down the real culprit? “Exceptional… A standout” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn’t really believe in. Ultimately he can’t resist the challenge and begins designing expertly concealed hiding spaces — … — behind a painting, within a column, or inside a drainpipe — detecting possibilities invisible to the average eye. But when one of his clever hiding spaces fails horribly and the immense suffering of…