A Brother's Blood: A Novel - Softcover

White, Michael C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006092859X ISBN 13: 9780060928599

Publisher: Perennial, 1997

Synopsis

Coming to America to investigate the suspicious death of his brother, a German POW during the war, Wolfgang Kallick joins forces with Libby, a local spinster, to uncover the truth about the death, but the case becomes complicated by the murder of Libby's brother

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Review:

This novel is set in a small Maine village, where, back in 1945, German prisoners worked in a logging camp. When the brother of an ex-prisoner turns up seeking information on the murder of his brother after he escaped from the camp, it rouses old and disturbing memories for Libby Pelletier. Though Libby is reluctant to remember what she knows, much less talk about it, she finds it inevitable when violence returns and her brother is killed. The link between the murders is the mystery that drives this story of passion, cruelty, and ignorance.

About the Author:

Michael C. White is the author of the novels A Brother's Blood, a New York Times Notable Book of 1996, and The Blind Side of the Heart. His short stories have been widely published and have won the Advocate Newspapers Fiction Contest and the Permafrost Fiction contest, as well as being nominated for a Pushcart and a National Magazine Award. He is a professor of English at Fairfield University where the teaches fiction writing workshops and literature courses. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife Karen, and his two children, Caitlin and Wesley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 006092859X
• ISBN 13: 9780060928599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336