RON HEMMINGS
Welcome to my site! If you're a fan of World War Two mysteries, you've arrived at the perfect destination. Dive into intriguing stories and uncover secrets of this fascinating era. Enjoy your journey through history and suspense!
My latest novel, Killing Time in London, is now available on Amazon, Kindle, Apple, and all sites in between for you to read and enjoy.
About the book
London, 1940: A killer strikes, but this is no ordinary murder. It harbours secrets that could tip the balance of power in Britain's war against Germany.
Detective Inspector Crisp of Scotland Yard, haunted by memories of the Great War, is called to lead the investigation. As he delves deeper, the boundaries between right and wrong blur.
Will his inner demons prevent him from unearthing the truth?
Meanwhile, MI5 has recruited a young agent, Bartholomew Quinn, and given him a challenging mission: to lure his estranged German cousin, Karl, a Nazi spy, to England with the promise of allegiance to the Nazi cause while secretly planning to feed Karl false intelligence. Can Bartholomew overcome old wounds and repressed hatreds from their childhood and convince Karl that he is a sincere sympathiser? Will Bartholomew's thirst for vengeance overpower his patriotic duty during this crucial moment in his country's history?
As Crisp races to find the killer, he finds himself in a tense confrontation with Quinn. In this high-stakes conflict, who is truly in the right-the detective sworn to uphold the law, or the MI5 agent driven by a burning desire for revenge?
This murder case transcends the fate of a single spy; it explores the complex roles that loyalty and vengeance can play in our lives.
About The Book
The year is 1940. England is at war with Germany, and its bustling capital is terrorized nightly by bomb raids. But for Montreal Gazette crime reporter Jeremy Wilde, the opportunity to work in London as a foreign correspondent is thrilling, and his task—to interview and profile the work of fellow Canadians abroad—seems straightforward enough.
But when Nurse Margaret Ryan divulges to Jeremy her suspicions about the mysterious disappearances of Jewish refugees, the two of them find themselves unwittingly entangled in an effort to uncover crimes far more sinister than those Jeremy left behind—and a conspiracy that could implicate even the esteemed Royal Air Force.
What dark deeds have been carried out undetected while the world is distracted by war? And how can two ordinary people become heroes on the front lines of a very different sort of battle?
About Ron
Ron Hemmings is the author of two World War Two-themed novels, The Crooked Timbers and a recently released novel, Killing Time in London. He transitioned from being a mathematics teacher to a fiction writer with the expectant growing pains as evidenced by the many dog-eared copies of ‘How to Write’ reference guides that overrun his bookshelves.
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Born and raised in Montreal, Ron initially studied Political Science before beginning his teaching career. Unexpectantly, fate led him into the entirely dissimilar world of mathematics, where he found his true calling. He later relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, with his family, where he finished his distinguished forty-year teaching career as the head of the Mathematics Department at a prestigious private school.
