The Violinists Secret
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Violinists Secret
By (Author) M.J. Hollows
HarperCollins Publishers
HQ Digital
30th July 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
Historical crime and mysteries
Second World War fiction
Espionage and spy thriller
Fiction based on or inspired by true events
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 27mm
840g
Description
The brand-new heart-wrenching World War 2 historical novel from the bestselling author of The German Messenger
Charlotte Weber is against the Nazi regime and what it stands for, but as she attends Hamburg University, she struggles to make sense of the war she finds herself a part of. Practising her violin for the university orchestra with her friend, Greta, gets her through the days, until Greta fails to meet her one day, and Charlotte goes to her friends apartment to find her body inside.
The police declare it a suicide, but Charlotte knows it is murder.
Desperate to discover who killed her friend, but not knowing where to turn, Charlotte is approached by Nazi spies, who recruit her, believing she is Greta. Caught right in the middle of the regimes web, Charlotte determines to use her position to subvert the regime from the inside, and find out the truth about Greta once and for all.
As the war atrocities heighten, and she witnesses the brutality of the Gestapo, Charlotte begins to discover hidden truths of her closest circle of friends, all of whom have something to hide that would make them targets for the Nazis
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Author Bio
Michael J. Hollows was born in London in 1986, and moved to Liverpool in 2010 to lecture in Audio Engineering. With a keen interest in history, music, and science, he has told stories since he was little. Goodbye for Now, published in Oct 2018, is his first novel, which he started as part of his MA in Writing from Liverpool John Moores University, graduating in 2015. The German Nurse, his second historical novel, was a top ten Globe & Mail bestseller. Michael also writes for Black Library and his first short story Ashes of Grimnir is available now. He is currently researching towards a PhD in Creative Writing, working on his next novel.
