The War Photographers

by SL Beaumont

Overview

WINNER: IRDA 2024 Historical Fiction Award

 

She will risk everything to expose the truth.

 

1943 – Bletchley Park, England
Mae Webster, immersed in the clandestine world of codebreaking at Bletchley Park, is recruited to help unveil a spy who's on the brink of exposing Britain's most guarded secret: the cracking of the Enigma code. As war rages around her, Mae's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls in love with the enigmatic New Zealand war photographer Jack Knight. Their relationship develops at pace, but tragedy strikes when one of Jack's photographs risks unmasking an elusive double agent.

1989 – Berlin, Germany

Rachel Talbot, a globetrotting photojournalist, ventures into the heart of a fractured Berlin in search of the Stasi officer whom her beloved grandmother Mae blames for betraying their family. Rachel finds herself entangled in the East German uprising and is irresistibly drawn to a charismatic activist. As the Cold War threatens to boil over, Rachel races to expose a traitor before it's too late.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940179153306
Publisher:	Paperback Writer's Publishing
Publication date:	02/15/2024
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

SL Beaumont is an award-winning mystery and crime writer who loves travel and history.

She lives in beautiful New Zealand, which is only problematic when the travel bug bites (which it does fairly often)! Her passion for travel has led her to take many long-haul flights to various parts of the world. Her enjoyment of history helps determine the destination and the places she visits are a constant source of inspiration for her.

Before becoming an author, SL Beaumont worked in banking in London and New York and is now a partner in a chartered accountancy firm in Auckland.

The War Photographers is the 2024 IRDA Historical Fiction Award winner; Shadow of Doubt won the 2020 Indie Reader Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Award and was long-listed for the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel. Death Count was a semi-finalist for the Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize.