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Always Play the Dark Horse
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Sharon R, Yang
Published: Sep 5 2025
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One foggy spring evening in 1946, a young college professor slips into a deserted campus building for a surreptitious meeting with her lover, only to be abruptly shot dead in the darkness. Who is the victim? Who is her murderer? The answers will only gradually be revealed as the tale unspools. That June, Jessica Minton and James Crawford, still newlyweds, peregrinate from New York City to that same campus on Long Island Sound for James to return to teaching after his harrowing years with the S.O.E. during the war. The future should be sparkling for the two, with James returning to the work he loves and Jessica getting a well deserved hiatus from her radio program. Sweetening the deal, Jessica's friend Rose is also a professor at the small, progressive women's college, and she and her family offer the couple a happy welcome. Yet darkness looms. James is haunted by memories of the war and a mission that he isn't allowed to tell Jessica about, until their discovery of the missing professor's decomposing corpse forces his hand. The dangers facing Jessica and James are intensified by Jessica's friendship with a troubled veteran and his striking dark horse, as well as the presence on campus of an old flame of hers and his formidable wife, both of whom may be linked to a Nazi fifth columnist. The Nazi is only revealed amidst kidnapping, a conflagration, and a fatal gunfight, where the dark horse of the title proves a vital ally.
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