Author: mitchsilver

Belgium, 1940: Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into the monastery at Villers-devant-Orval just before the Nazis plan to sweep through the area and whisk everything of value back to Berlin. That night, he adds an old leather Bible to the monastery’s library and then escapes. London, 2017: A construction worker makes a grisly discovery–a skeletal arm-bone with a rusty handcuff … handcuff attached to the wrist. The woman who will put these two disparate events together–and understand the looming tragedy she must hurry to prevent–is Russian historian and former Soviet chess champion Larissa Mendelovg Klimt,…