I am happy to announce the completion of my latest book, Memory of Evil, a new detective novel which I will be publishing between now and Christmas on Amazon. In this sixth novel in my series The ABC Files, events decades before in Germany haunt the present lives of several of the characters. What starts as a favour for a friend by Hamish turns into a web of intrigue and murder. But just as he and Sean seem to be closing in on the murderer, they realize that things are very different from what they thought. The answer is buried in the past, and it is in the interest of the culprit to keep it buried.
Like its predecessors, this new detective novel is set in Nova Scotia in the fictional town of Ashcroft-by-the-Sea, as well as in Halifax, Chester, and Digby, with flashbacks to a Europe where an Iron Curtain still separated the West from the East. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany was one of the most repressive regimes in the world. The secret police, or Stasi, infliltrated all aspects of daily life and relied on an army of informants. For nothing more than a minor criticism of the Communist regime the Stasi could make a respectable citizen into a pariah. After the collapse of the government of East Germany and its reunification with the western part, people were able to access their police files and discover that they had been denounced by colleagues, relatives, and even spouses! No wonder the former Stasi agents were the object of the rage and hatred of the population …