RON HEMMINGS
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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 soon-to-be-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.
