This week, I’m running a giveaway for a paperback copy of The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor. It’s for the U.K. only. The Martin von Bora series sounds thrilling, and this book is going on my to-be-read list! If you love historical crime fiction, read on for more details about the book and the giveaway.
The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor
Genre: Historical crime fiction
Publication: August, 2020, by Bitter Lemon Press
Wehrmacht Officer Martin von Bora is ordered to investigate the murder of Walter Niemeyer, a dazzling clairvoyant, a star since the days of the Weimar Republic. For years he has mystified Germany with his astounding prophecies.
Bora’s inquiry, supported by former S.A member Florian Grimm, resurrects memories of the excessive and brilliant world of Jazz Age cabarets and locales. Around them, in the oppressive summer heat, constant allied bombing, war-weary Berlin teems with refugees and nearly a million foreign laborers. Soon Bora realizes that there is much more at stake than murder in a paranoid city where everyone suspects everyone, and where persistent rumors whisper about a conspiracy aimed at the very heart of the Nazi hierarchy. Could the charming Emmy Pletsch, who works for Claus von Stauffenberg, be a key to understanding what is going on?
Bora eventually meets with Stauffenberg, facing an anguishing moral dilemma, as a German soldier and as a man. The 20 July plot and its dramatic implications as never told before.
Giveaway Details
Doesn’t this book sound thrilling? To enter the giveaway, please “like” or comment on this post, or hop over to my account on Twitter (@meredithrankin2) and share the tweet. Remember, this is for a paperback copy and is available only in the U.K.
The giveaway runs through August 26, 2020, midnight (CDT).
If you’re not in the U.K., click here to buy The Night of Shooting Stars on Amazon.
About Ben Pastor
BEN PASTOR, born in Italy, worked as a university professor in Vermont. She is one of the most talented writers in the field of historical fiction. In 2008 she won the prestigious Premio Zaragoza for best historical fiction. She writes in English
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