"The Book of Lost Names" by Kristin Harmel. I read this in the last 24 hours and could. not. put. it. down! I read "The Paris Daughter" almost 2 years ago and just couldn't read this right away. My advice though is if you read one and like it read the other fairly soon after. I picked it up 3 times and just couldn't...I highly recommend even though it is so chilling to read with such detail the atrocities when we are in such peril right now here in the US. 5 star!

This is *The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel* - New York Times bestselling author of _The Winemaker's Wife_.

Published *July 2020*, inspired by a true story from World War II.

Here is a summary in English:

*Two Timelines:*

*2005 - Winter Park, Florida:*

*Eva Traube Abrams - 86 years old*, a semi-retired librarian. She is shelving books when she sees a photo in the New York Times.

It's a photo of an 18th-century religious book, _Epitres et Evangiles_, now housed in Berlin's Central Library. The article says it was looted by Nazis and contains a mysterious code that no one can decipher.

Eva freezes. She knows that book instantly. She hasn't seen it in 65 years. She calls it *The Book of Lost Names*. Only she knows what the code means.

She decides she must fly to Berlin, even though it means facing the memories she has buried for decades.

*1942 - France:*