Ben Pastor, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-312-35390-2
In A.D. 304, the historian Aelius Spartianus steps into a conspiracy spanning centuries in Pastor's satisfyingly convoluted historical, which ranges from Egypt to the villas and back alleys of imperial Rome. Researching a biography of the...
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Ben Pastor, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-312-35391-9
In Pastor's gripping second fourth-century Roman historical to feature Aelius Spartianus, an imperial envoy, historian and military commander who uncovered a conspiracy in Egypt that threatened the empire in The Water Thief
(2007), Aelius...
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Ben Pastor, Author Van Neste Books $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9657639-4-3
Mixing elements of a psychological thriller and an existential meditation, Pastor's debut follows a German army captain and a Chicago priest as they investigate the death of a nun in Nazi-occupied Poland. Mother Kazimierza's alleged power to see the
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Ben Pastor. Bitter Lemon (Consortium, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (210p) ISBN 978-1-904738-82-4
Set in German-occupied Italy in the fall of 1943, Pastor’s second novel featuring Wehrmacht Maj. Martin Bora (after 2011’s Lumen) finds Bora assigned by German headquarters in Verona to assist Italian Centurion Gaetano De Rosa in investigating the...
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Ben Pastor. Bitter Lemon, $14.95 trade paper (246p) ISBN 978-1-908524-30-0
Pastor's atmospheric third Martin Bora mystery (after 2012's Liar Moon) finds the German counterintelligence officer in Rome in January 1944. There Bora teams with Insp. Sandro Guidi of the Italian police to investigate the suspicious death of...
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Ben Pastor. Bitter Lemon, $14.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-908524-51-5
Set in the spring of 1943, Pastor’s excellent fourth mystery featuring Maj. Martin Bora (after 2014’s Dark Song of Blood) takes the German army counterintelligence officer to Ukraine. In Krasny Yar, a place shunned by the locals, someone has been...
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Ben Pastor. Bitter Lemon, $14.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-908524-80-5
Pastor’s solid fifth Martin Bora mystery (after 2015’s Tin Sky) takes the Wehrmacht investigator from Moscow, where he’s been stationed, to Crete in early June 1941, soon after the German occupation of the island and three weeks before Hitler’s...
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Ben Pastor. Bitter Lemon, $14.95 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-1-912242-11-5
Set in 1937, Pastor’s outstanding sixth mystery featuring German investigator Martin Bora (after 2017’s The Road to Ithaca) makes effective use of the death of Federico García Lorca, the celebrated poet, during the Spanish Civil War. Bora, who’s...
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Ben Pastor. Bitter Lemon, $14.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-912242-28-3
In Pastor’s intelligent if somewhat labored seventh Martin Bora mystery (after 2019’s The Horseman’s Song), the gentlemanly German army officer, who has returned to Berlin from the Italian front in July 1944 for a funeral, receives a summons from...
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