Author: maryadler

Richmond, California. 1944.Homicide detective Oliver Wright comes home from the war in the Pacific injured and afraid his career is over, but when black soldiers are suspected of murdering an Italian Prisoner of War, the Army asks Oliver to find out the truth.He and his German shepherd join forces with an Italian POW captain and with a black MP embittered by a segregated military. During their … military. During their investigation, these unlikely allies expose layers of deceit and violence that stretch back to World War I.In the Shadow of Lies reveals the darkness and turmoil of the Bay Area…

San Francisco, 1944.  Oliver Wright, a homicide detective on medical leave from the Marines, is investigating an attempted murder at the Presidio when the Army asks him to guard Sophia Nirenska, a Polish resistance fighter who survived the Warsaw ghetto uprising in Poland and is touring America to raise money for children hidden from the Nazis in Europe.Neither is happy with the assignment, but … assignment, but after a car deliberately hits Sophia, they reluctantly agree that he should travel with her to Petaluma where she hopes to get the help of Jewish chicken farmers. She insists political enemies want…