The Dust of Years

When a routine Social Security disability appeal in the fictional U.S. state of Northmont unearths a 1944 medical document from the Vesperbrook Sanatorium in occupied Alsatia, an aging survivor recognizes the signature of the man who conducted lethal experiments on prisoners. Now eighty-seven, former orderly Viktor Brandt has lived quietly as a respected carpenter—but the evidence threatens to expose him. Law student Elara Vance, assisting on the case, finds herself drawn into a hidden war crime that pits a dying witness against a cunning perpetrator in a final reckoning where the law may prove powerless.