The Thirteenth Witness

Hollow Creek Publishing

• 17 februari 2026
• 9798233250590

Samenvatting:

A chilling psychological thriller of Cold War vengeance and implanted memory.In the grey February fog of Bratislava, Detective Emil Varga finds four severed fingers arranged on a pre-1989 map of Europe. Each points to a border soaked in old secrets. The victim: a former StB officer. The execution: surgical. The message: You should have looked closer.As bodies appear across Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Warsaw-each staged with symbolic mutilations and taunting notes-the killings trace forgotten prisoner transport routes from communism's final days. The victims all share one history: interrogations, severed fingers, forced confessions.But every clue circles back to 1992. To a nine-year-old girl who watched her dissident father broken in a basement. Who vanished after her own "disposal" order was signed. Who was never meant to remember.Now she remembers everything.And she's making the chain pay: interrogators, transporters, record-keepers, commanders. And the escort officer who looked away when she slipped through the bars.As memory fractures and reality loops, Varga realizes this isn't an investigation. It's a trap designed to force him to confront what he was programmed to forget.For readers who love The Silent Patient, The Chain, Slow Horses, and dark historical suspense: a razor-sharp tale of revenge, unreliable memory, and a mind that refuses erasure.Perfect for fans of:Psychological thrillers with massive twistsRevenge stories with morally grey antiheroesCold War conspiracy and post-communist noirMemory manipulation and identity horrorUnreliable narrator mysteries