Deadly Rescue: A World War II Mystery (Deadly Series)
Historical Cozy Mystery
9th in Series
JDP Press (September 20, 2022)
Number of Pages ~300
Synopsis
As the Phony War morphs into the Blitzkrieg, two British intelligence officers risk getting trapped behind enemy lines in the ninth Deadly mystery from USA Today Bestselling author Kate Parker
April, 1940. Hitler is invading Denmark on Tuesday. Olivia Redmond has only a weekend to bring a Nobel Prize winning chemist and his war-altering research to Britain. The scientist and his wife want to leave, but their troublesome daughter will do anything to stop her parents from departing.
When the daughter’s German fiancé is murdered, the police refuse to let anyone depart until they find the killer. If Olivia wants to escape Denmark with the chemist and his breakthroughs, she will have to unmask the killer before the Nazis stop her forever.
Deadly Rescue, book nine of the Deadly Series, is for fans of World War II era spy thrillers and classical cozy mysteries, of intrepid lady sleuths with determination and smarts. No explicit cursing, violence, or sex.
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Guest Post
Hello, I’m Sir Malcolm Fremantle, Britain’s spymaster. It’s 1940 now, and the Phony War that gave Britain some breathing space to prepare for war is over. Germany has announced that they are about to invade Denmark and Norway, and we can be certain other countries will soon follow.
The responsibilities I face are legion.
I only have a small group of full-time, trained agents. Many of them, such as Mike Christiansen who you meet in Deadly Rescue, have relatives in a country on the continent of Europe and speak another language and have knowledge that only a local would have.
Most of the work is done by part-time agents who have real employment or a situation which makes them useful for specific tasks. Livvy Redmond is a features reporter on a London daily newspaper. That makes her partially trained to be nosy which is better than most of them. She also is fluent in German and French which can be quite useful. But in Deadly Rescue, she has another attribute that makes her the best candidate for this assignment.
In my position, I must be sensitive to the mental, emotional, and physical needs of the people I am trying to manipulate. That includes my agents and the people they need to relocate or gain information from. Livvy Redmond’s mother, who died twenty-some years ago, was a good friend of the wife of a Nobel Prize-winning chemist I want to recruit for Britain. What could be better than to send Livvy over to help convince both the chemist and his wife to come here? Especially since Livvy doesn’t remember her mother and wants to learn more about her.
My part-time agents have little training. The best they can do is rely on their common sense and their curiosity and a work ethic that does not let them quit. Livvy is better at this than most, which is good since she insists on getting herself into sticky situations.
Take this Denmark situation. We need the chemist and his research into synthetic rubber brought here rather than left for the Germans to use. He’s willing to come here, his wife is willing to travel with him, but their daughter…why must people I want to help have children? Or family of any kind? The chemist’s daughter is engaged to a German and wants to stay, and her mother has some sort of misguided loyalty which is complicating the situation.
Then there’s a murder, and the Danish police decide to become troublesome. Now, my policy is to always work with the local police, unless they become an impediment to my work or my agent’s work. Then I believe a good lie in the cause of a British victory will save lives in the end.
I can’t take my eye off the goal, the reason for all this, for a moment. We are at war, in a fight for our very survival as a nation. We’re at war with Nazi Germany, and a bigger threat cannot be imagined. Every successful mission by Livvy Redmond and the rest of my agents is a step toward our ultimate victory.
Deadly Rescue, the ninth book in the Deadly Series by USA Today bestselling author Kate Parker, is on sale in ebook and paperback at all the usual online retailers.
About the Author
Since she was unable to build a time machine in her backyard, Kate Parker immerses herself in research and then creates the world that lives inside each book that she writes. Her favorite place is London and her time travel destination is anywhere from the late Victorian era through World War II. Since she lives in the Carolinas with her daughter and a 95-pound puppy, the practical side of her is thankful for air conditioning and all the modern comforts of life. Comforts she will take with her if she ever figures out how to build her time machine.
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