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A grain of truth : a second case for Polish State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki / Zygmunt Mioszewski, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

By:

Miloszewski, Zygmunt

Contributor(s):

Lloyd-Jones, Antonia

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Mroczna seriaPublication details: London : Bitter Lemon Press , 2012, c2011.Description: 380 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781908524027

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Detective and mystery stories -- --Fiction

DDC classification:

MYS MIL

LOC classification:

PG7213.I455 U94 2007

Summary: It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Teodor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw--he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly. The victim is found brutally murdered, her body drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish ritual slaughter, prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town, where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman's husband is bereft, but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover, the husband becomes the prime suspect. Before there's time to arrest him, he is found murdered in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish-Jewish relations and something that happened more than sixty years earlier.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Mystery	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	MYS MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		025476

"First published in Polish as Ziarno prawdy by Wydawnictwo W.A.B., 2011"--T.p. verso.

It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Teodor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw--he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly. The victim is found brutally murdered, her body drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish ritual slaughter, prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town, where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman's husband is bereft, but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover, the husband becomes the prime suspect. Before there's time to arrest him, he is found murdered in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish-Jewish relations and something that happened more than sixty years earlier.

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