Nicholas Kinsey
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June 1631 - Baltimore, Ireland
"Malcolm woke up just before dawn broke over the cove. He heard a loud crash and climbed out of bed. He sniffed the air and smelled smoke. He was barely six years old, but he knew something bad was happening. He heard a knock at the door and went to open it. Standing on the threshold was a fierce-looking Turkish janissary wearing a long red tunic and a traditional bork with a jewelled ornament affixed to the forehead,...
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Stortorget Square, Stockholm, 1945.
"In a side street, Peter waited near the car with Evdokia dressed in a grey raincoat. Her head was covered with a black cloth bag. A car stopped on the opposite side of the square. Two men emerged. Peter recognized one of them as the NKVD head of station, Major Vladimir Petrov, in a business suit and a fedora. He led the way, followed by a second man wearing a workman’s cap over his white hair. The hand-off was...
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Latchmere House, London, 1941
"In the interrogation room, MI6 officer Major Frank Foley and Captain Short sat at a table with the chief interrogator, Lt-Colonel Robin ‘Tin Eye’ Stephens in his Gurkha uniform and monocle. Hess in his Luftwaffe uniform was brought in, limping on his right leg.
“Can I have a chair, sir? My ankle is hurting,” Hess complained.
“Hauptmann Horn, you are in a British Secret Service prison at the present time,"...
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From the bestselling author of Playing Rudolf Hess, An Absolute Secret, Shipwrecked Lives, and White Slaves comes this extraordinary novel about the 1832 cholera epidemic in Western Ontario. Young Paolo works for his uncle as a gravedigger during the day and at night he earns a bonus from wealthy clients as a 'remembrance man' whose job is to watch over selected graves for signs of the undead. He discovers a young woman who has been buried alive and...
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May 1914-St. Lawrence River, Canada
"The Empress was listing to starboard at a dangerous angle. Alice and her son Jamie, a little boy in a sailor suit, sat perched on the railing, looking down at the lifeboat in the water. Several dozen people had jumped into the water in desperation. Tom crawled over to Alice and Jamie with two lifebelts under his arm.
“Alice put this on,” said Tom.
“But I can swim, Tom. You put it on,” replied Alice.
“Do...