It’s six months after Becky assisted the Major Crimes Unit in the raid on Haven and things are going well for her. She has just one thing playing on her mind; who is stalking her? The Unit, still run by Emma, is looking for the perpetrator of some gruesome killings. The heartless perpetrator has been dubbed by the papers as The White Rose Killer. Will they stop him before he kills again? Stefan is still on the run but is determined to find his brother, Jerry. But will Jerry welcome him or turn his back on the man responsible for the abduction and false imprisonment of several women? Theresa, who has been held captive for several years, wonders if she will ever be free.
I would like to thank Victoria Taylor for writing another brilliant installment of the Rebecca Filmore series.
It's 6 months since Haven was uncovered with Rebecca Filmore's help. Things have started to get back to normal, but Becky has a stalker. He's calling her, sending her things to her work and her home. Who is he and what lengths will he go to, to make her his? Someone is killing women and leaving white roses on them? Will Emma and the gang find out who it is and be able to stop him before the next woman is found dead? Stefan is on the run still and wants to find his brother Jerry. Can Stefan find him and make a relationship work with Jerry or will Jerry turn his back on Stefan? Billy is behind bars, but is stewing as his dad (Stefan) wasn't caught, will he say anything or will Jerry (his counselor) be his way out of jail? Who is Theresa? Who is holding her captive? Will she ever be found?
You need to read the 1st installment in order to catch up with the storyline, but when you do, this 2nd installment will have you riding the rollercoaster of what happens next for Rebecca Filmore?
World War 2 is drawing to a close and German soldier Aldrich Renke is part of a squad launching V2 rocket (Doodlebug) attacks on London before his capture by Allied troops. With him is a child refugee.
Interned in Britain and grieving the loss of his own family in a bombing raid, he eventually remarries and settles in England.
Part 2 moves into the late 1990s when Renke becomes friends with a former British soldier whose wife was killed in a V2 rocket attack. He is also re-united with the child refugee - now a successful author - through the efforts of a journalist whose husband owns a wood that has fallen into neglect.
It's against this woodland setting and the challenges to restore it that further tragedy strikes.
With its poignant ending, The Compassion of Trees depicts the power of healing and renewal following the loss of loved ones.
I was asked to read this novel by a friend. I've read something by this author previously (in a book with other authors) which I liked his style of writing.
This is a story about two WW2 veterans and their path to solace via the woods. Aldrich Renke is a German WW2 soldier who was part of the launching of the V2 (Doodlebug), who goes on the run away from his platoon and finds things about his family. He then meets a little girl who he helps saves before being captured by the British (yay for us lol). Arthur Fulton is a British WW2 soldier who's wife was killed by the V2 (Doodlebug). He is 1 of the soldiers looking after the POWs in Lincolnshire, where he kinda met Aldrich Reneke. Move on nearly 50 years later, Aldrich is re-married with a son and grandchild, Arthur is living on his own (never re-married after his wide was killed). A chance meeting in the bookies leads to memories. A reporter who's husband leases the woods brings Aldrich and the young girl (he saved) together. What happens when they meet? What is the connection between Aldrich's family and the woods?
All will be revealed when you read this delightful WW2 book about two old soldiers and what their intertwining lives are now the war is over.
