Death of a Codebreaker

OLD CONSPIRACIES, NEW COLD-BLOODED MURDER

When Darlene Johanson, a young librarian in Ottawa, Ontario, goes missing, private investigator Baker Somerset soon discovers a tangled web that leads her to a decades-old murder. Darlene's great-aunt Loretta, a World War Two codebreaker, disappeared under mysterious circumstances during wartime, and her niece had been looking into it, uncovering a complex covert operation involving spies and submarines.

When Somerset, a former Scotland Yard detective, realizes the two cases are connected, she is put directly in the path of dangerous neo-Nazi groups and a killer who will stop at nothing to cover up past crimes.

This is the third book in the Baker Somerset series.

Max Folsom is a columnist for the Sherlockian quarterly journal Groans, Cries, and Bleatings. She is the winner of the 2020 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for best unpublished crime novel and the 2018 Daphne Du Maurier Award for excellence in unpublished mystery/suspense. She divides her time between a Centretown, Ottawa, apartment and a stone house in Vermont with her husband, a retired Canadian military officer, and their fat ginger cat. She is the author of two Baker Somerset detective novels, One Bad Day After Another (FriesenPress, 2021) and Searching for Peter Griffiths (FriesenPress, 2022).

www.maxfolsom.com