'What is a blood promise?' Finally they ask something useful. I peel the tissues off my hand and show them. A blood promise is a promise that cannot be broken. You have to keep your promise or die trying.  From Felicity Bloomfield's "Blood" Blood Promises and Other Commitments contains three stories about unbreakable commitments: to family, to social class, or to the ideal plane. With settings ranging from war-torn East Timor to Reagan-era Utah to Prerevolutionary Russia, the stories in Blood Promises tell of unique characters paying the price of devotion.

Blood Promises and Other Commitments

Literature & Fiction

McCormick, William Burton

Snowden, Jim

Bloomfield, Felicity

Humor & Satire

MMIP Books

In the summer of 1936, the racial and political climate in Munich are growing tense, and Kommisar Rolf Wundt and his wife Klara are increasingly desperate to leave Nazi Germany while they still can. But when a member of the League of German Girls is found brutally murdered and posed in the yard of a dilapidated farmhouse, Rolf’s supervisor declares that they can’t leave until he’s solved the case. Rolf’s investigation leads him from the depths of the underground Communist movement to the heights of Germany’s elite Nazi society, exposing the cracks in Germany’s so-called unified society as well as the unspoken tensions in Rolf’s complicated marriage. Ultimately, long-buried secrets and overwhelming evidence are laid bare, but how can Rolf bring the killer to justice in a country devoid of justice? And how can he protect himself, his wife, and his former lover from the barbarism of a corrupt and power-hungry government?

The Summer of Long Knives

Genre Fiction

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