num_pages: 380
description: It is spring 2009 and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsawhe has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a brave new life Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly.The victim is found brutally murdered her body drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish ritual slaughter prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman's husband is bereft but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover the husband becomes the prime suspect. Before there's time to arrest him he is found murdered in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and something that happened more than sixty years earlier.
language: English
title: A Grain of Truth
publisher: Bitter Lemon Press