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Matt Rider is made an offer that seems too good to miss. Go to Prague, find some priceless music manuscripts – and share in a fortune. Unfortunately, even for a confident backstreet PI, the clues are rather thin on the ground. All Matt knows is that a young Jewish girl called Hana Eisler had the manuscripts in Prague in 1942.
Using old records from the Helios Music Academy in England, Matt tracks Hana’s movements to a Nazi concentration camp in the Czech Republic. And there the trail seems to end.
The American violin teacher at the Helios Academy claims to know something about Hana’s family. And so does the Academy dean. Matt decides to contact Hana in a séance.
Taking place in England and the Czech Republic, Academy of the Dead is an exciting hunt for lost treasure and a missing child. There are big stakes to play for – and maybe not everyone can be trusted.
Academy of the Dead is the third Matt Rider detective thriller. The other two are “Hands of the Traitor” and “Shroud of the Healer.” These can be sent if required.
A Greek Love Story
By Kate Hofman
Publisher: Romance At Heart Publications
Genre: Contemporary
Category: Novel
Length: 59,000 words
IBSN: 0-9754589-4-4
Available: February 14, 2007
Nissa MacLean, a writer of serious fiction, came to the aid of her good friend Louise Sinclair. She has called on Nissa, asking her to help due to an injury, Louise’s ankle is sprained, and an absent maid. While Nissa is scrubbing, Alexander Karagiannis, Louise’s brother, enters. He mistakes her for the maid, which amuses Nissa, and also allows her a measure of relief. Nissa is finally free of a relationship in which she was badly abused, and is not ready to give her trust or her heart to another man. In the guise of a maid for Louise, she feels has a bit of a buffer, some anonymity and safety.
Alexander quickly realizes his mistake. He is deeply upset, because Nissa impresses him more than he wishes to admit. Louisa informs him Nissa never dates, and doesn’t trust men. Not liking the mystery, Alexander is shocked by what he eventually discovers. Nissa’s husband was not only cruel and abusive, but he was also accused of attempted murder, and committed suicide rather than stand trial. Alex realizes he has to go very slowly with this bruised, reclusive woman if he wants his dream to come true. Alexander has fallen in love with Nissa.
Between his need to travel, and the demands of his business, the inevitable insecurities arise in Nissa. The need to hide a pregnancy causes some rocky edges, especially when she miscarries the babe Alex hadn’t known about. Now with a strange woman answering Alex’s phone, Nissa is again wallowing in a world of hurt and misunderstanding. And she is pregnant again.
This time, Alex’s sister steps in to see if she can help the two struggling lovers pull themselves back together again. The question remains for Louise… can she get Nissa to see the light, and to finally put her trust in Alexander?