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Book No 3: The Matchstick Boy

**Winner of the Coffee Pot Book Club Silver Award for Historical Mysteries
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**Reader's Choice, 5 Stars Award**

 

This new novel takes place in a remote Swiss valley in the mid-19th century. It is based on a true story.

When eleven-year-old Josef is killed by a rock avalanche, his brother is convinced it is murder. He had seen someone on a rocky outcrop above the scree before it began to roll. But who would want to kill an eleven-year-old boy, and why? Jakob suspects the privileged son of the owner of a matchstick factory, but nobody takes him seriously and he is powerless to obtain justice.

Thirty years later, Jakob’s profoundly deaf daughter is raped by the same man and becomes pregnant. Jakob is determined to get justice for his daughter, at no matter what cost. He unearths a myriad of well-kept secrets in the tight-lipped community, but is anyone willing to tell the truth? Just as he thinks he has uncovered the facts, he realises he has made a vital mistake all along. Nothing is really as it seems.

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Book shops and libraries can order this book at INGRAM SPARK at ca. 40% discount. Books not sold may be returned.

News:
THE MATCHSTICK BOY is also translated into German: DER ZUENDHOELZLI BUB.
SEE GERMAN SITE FOR THIS BOOK IN GERMAN LANGUAGE AND GERMAN REVIEWS.

 

 

 Jungen 5 Horlauenen The real family Schneider* name changed (for data protection reasons)

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