An edgy exploration of history's legacies and the way time changes memory. Long-ago events in wartime France intersect with present-day England, and the lives of a Nazi criminal and a dying woman gradually, shockingly converge. A well-readstaff member says, "It's one of the those wonderful few that are hard to put down." "Malcolm's beautiful baritone voice, draped in a crisp British brogue, artfully drifts through a textured quilt of European accents."—Booklist