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  Ronald H. Balson has dragged Liam Taggart through a number of sordid cases, but none hit as close to home as the one he is faced with in The Trust . In this fourth novel of the Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart series, the private investigator returns to his childhood home upon his uncle's passing, only to learn the man predicted his own murder and decreed in his last will to postpone the distribution of the inheritance until the killer is found.

Ronald H. Balson has become a bit of a household name in the realm of Jewish historical fiction, coming back time and time again to the Second World War and the countless stories it still holds, undiscovered. In Katherine's Twins , the third book in the Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart series, the two protagonists help a holocaust survivor fulfill a childhood promise and to uncover a blurry past.

Ronald H. Balson has become a recognizable voice in the domain of Jewish literature, most notably through his Liam Taggard and Catherine Lockhart series.  The second book, titled Saving Sophie , tells the story of a father who is not only accused in a massive embezzlement case, but also whose wife just died and daughter just got kidnapped by her maternal grandmother, a suspected terrorist in Palestine.

We would like to think that all the Nazis were either trialed or outright executed at the end of the Second World War , but as you probably know, the truth is that countless people, many of them heinous murderers and criminals, have managed to escape the country and change their identities.  Even today, the hunt for the few survivors of that lot is still on, and throughout the last sixty years many fell victim to it.