Absent Victim: No body, no motive, no name...so who did she kill?

Literature & Fiction

Roy, David

Genre Fiction

Hobart Books

A whodunnit with extras…\nKezia Lee, a young woman of gypsy stock, operates on the wrong side of the law to help her “psychic consultant” mother snare clients. But it’s Kezia who possesses paranormal powers, albeit ones she can’t control or understand. 
Detective Inspector David Ross has no life outside the police. He’s haunted by the memory of the murder of a former girlfriend and frustrated by the bureaucracy and politics of his profession. Like Kezia, he’s given up any hope of a meaningful relationship.\nWhen a prostitute is found murdered in a Norwich park, Kezia becomes a suspect, although soon all the evidence points to a wounded ex-serviceman. Only Ross doubts the accused man’s guilt, and he’s not going to be allowed to investigate further.\nRoss recognises Kezia’s abilities and recruits her to help him. But soon it’s clear that the motive may lie in the dark secrets of powerful and dangerous men, and Ross fears he’s sent a woman with whom he’s fallen in love on what could be a fatal mission.

Rosary Road: Sometimes, it’s only the guilty who can save the innocent…

Chandler, Robert

Told by her daughter, the Canadian author S. Nadja Zajdman, this is the true story of one woman’s escape from hell in the Warsaw Ghetto to her eventual emigration to a new life in Montreal.\nBorn in 1928 to a privileged but troubled Jewish family, Renata Skotnicka-Zajdman’s upbringing was rich in culture and secular appreciation of the society around her, factors that would one day save her life.\nAfter surviving the initial siege of Warsaw, from 1939 Renata endured over two years of life on the run before being incarcerated in Warsaw’s infamous Ghetto. She was one of the few children to survive its conditions, thanks to the watchful guidance of her older brother and sister, as well as the heroism of eight Catholic rescuers.\nEscaping the Ghetto, she lived on the Aryan side for several months facing the threat of death on a daily basis, until she decided to break back into the Ghetto to be with family.\nWith the destruction of the Ghetto and life in Warsaw going from hellish to worse, Renata saw capture by the Germans as her only option for survival, and she was deported to The Third Reich, where she relied on her secular upbringing to masquerade as a Catholic. She served as a slave labourer until liberation in March 1945.\nWith the war’s end, Renata found herself alone in a foreign land controlled by a foreign power and in 1948, desperate to escape the graveyard that was Europe, she emigrated to Canada because it was the first country to accept her. Aged just twenty, Renata landed in Montreal to build a new life.\nFinding great and lasting love, Renata and the larger-than-life man she married built a warm and loving home for themselves and their children. Life was prosperous and good, until in the 1980s her husband suddenly died. 
As a youthful widow, Renata reinvented herself once again, becoming a trailblazer in Holocaust Education. As the Canadian liaison for the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Renata annually revisited her homeland, and found lost friends.\nIn 2011, terminally ill with cancer, Skotnicka-Zajdman was recognised by the Polish government, which awarded her the Order of Merit for her ceaseless activism in reconciling Polish Catholics and Polish Jews. The degraded orphan of war had vowed to give her life meaning, and succeeded. Renata died in 2013, loved and honoured, and on her own terms. 
She did not fear death as much as she feared oblivion. This is her story. This is Memory.

I Want You To Be Free

Biographies & Memoirs

Zajdman, S. Nadja

Skotnicka-Zajdman, Renata

Community & Culture

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Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Upton, Judy

Mystery

Architecture For Beginners

Cohen, Robert Williams

Humor & Satire

Full Circle: A Love Story Of Sorts

Cockaday, Gary

Erotica

An Unconventional Mind

Self-Help

Roy, Grace

Motivational

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