Once Upon a Time

Fradkin, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0929141849 / ISBN 13: 9780929141848

Published by Rendezvous Press, Toronto, 2002

About this Item

first edition mystery, featuring Inspector Green, trade paperback, fine condition, inscribed by author "To Marnie, Hope you enjoy the second visit", includes promotional bookmark for a later series.

Seller Inventory # 000470

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Once Upon a Time
• Publisher: Rendezvous Press, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0929141849
• ISBN 13: 9780929141848
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mysteries

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Synopsis

When an old man dies a seemingly natural death in a parking lot, only Inspector Michael Green finds it suspicious. Something about the closed case has caught his eye - why did the victim have a mysterious gash on his head, inflicted around the time of his death? Talking to the man’s family only increases Green’s curiosity. They are obviously hiding something about the old man, who lived in isolation as though avoiding painful memories. A search of his house turns up an old tool box with a hidden compartment containing a German ID card from World War II. Was the victim a Jewish camp survivor or a Nazi soldier trying to escape imprisonment? Or had he been a Polish collaborator who had sold his own people into slavery and death? Could someone have tracked him down for revenge? Even Green, with all his experience, could never have imagined the truth. The sequel to Do or Die is not only a tightly plotted police mystery, but a compelling tale of unhealed emotional wounds from a time of unspeakable atrocity.

About the Author

Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist who is fascinated with why people turn bad. She has written numerous short stories and novellas as well as the critically acclaimed Inspector Green novels. Two of these, Fifth Son and Honour Among Men, have won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. She lives in Ottawa.