Shadows on a Distant Shore: A Montclaire Mystery, Book 2

It is 1904. A series of unusual events, including the murder of a French agent, a large concentration of the Kaiser's intelligence operatives, and vague reports about a deep-cover Russian agent who is spying on the czar, gives Gerard de Montclaire yet another opportunity to prove his mettle as the finest detective of the Edwardian Era.

He and his lifelong associate Sir Francis Fitz Maurice, are drawn to Lake Constance. There, in the lonely borderlands between Imperial Germany and Switzerland, they unravel a tangled skein of espionage, international financial schemes, and the testing of a terrible new secret weapon in the Kaiser's arsenal.

In the mix, Montclaire must defeat a cunning assassin, recover sensitive documents, and unmask a ruthless master spy who is willing to commit the most horrible of crimes.