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Prolific Scottish crime writer Paul Johnston lives in Greece and his long-established and now resurrected Alex Mavros series features a half-Greek and half-Scots private sleuth who specialises in missing person cases and presently appears in his fifth outing. His dual heritage mark him as man with a conflicting sense of identity and something of an outsider wherever he treads, which makes for an engaging sleuth with a strong social conscience. Echoing the rise of fascism and Greek's economic woes and rampant corruption, The Black Life sees Mavros seeking out the fate of a Thessaloniki Jew who was deported to the concentration camps during WW2 and how it connects with present. Hardboiled to a tee and intense, this is a contemporary thriller with a conscience.
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Half-Greek, half-Scots P.I. Alex Mavros takes on one of his strangest and most difficult cases when he’s asked to trace a man who’s returned from the dead. A wealthy jeweller Samuel contacts Mavros after his Uncle Aron is spotted in the streets of Thessaloniki in northern Greece. But that’s impossible. Because Aron Samuel perished in Auschwitz more than sixty years before.
The case takes an even stranger twist when Mavros, accompanied by the jeweller’s enigmatic daughter Rachel, travels to Thessaloniki to question the elderly witness. For Aron Samuel is denounced as a traitor and murderer: was he really a Nazi collaborator?
Alternating between World War II and the present day, the shocking account throws a disturbing new light on the horrors of the Holocaust, revealing the full terrible truth about the fate of Thessaloniki’s 50,000 Jews – and the devastating present-day consequences.
The Black Life - A Novel of Jewish Collaborators in the Holocaust features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction
The Black Life - A Novel of Jewish Collaborators in the Holocaust is available in Paperback
The Black Life - A Novel of Jewish Collaborators in the Holocaust was written by Paul Johnston and published by Creme de la Crime an imprint of Severn House Publishers Ltd
