We Bury Nothing

by Kate Blair

In 1943, German soldier Erich Stein is captured by the Allies and imprisoned at Camp 43 in Canada, where he begins to question everything he once believed about what it means to be “a good German.”
In present day, Keira Martin lands a summer internship at the museum built atop Camp 43 to work on a historical true crime research solving the murder of Erich Stein in 1945. But when a fellow intern drowns under suspicious circumstances, Keira unveils a potential connection between the two deaths involving the Hoppers, a politically powerful family on the museum board pushing anti-2SLGBTQ+ policies. The Hopper Scholarship is Keira’s only hope to afford her dream university, but the more secrets she digs up from the past, the less certain she is about her own future …

Genres: Young Adult, Historical Fiction

272 pages, Paperback

Published October 4, 2025

About the author

Born on a tiny island stuck to the south coast of England, Kate Blair has worked as a museum curator, a clown and at a theme park on the Jersey Shore. She's made furniture for the Sydney Olympic Village and been a cook on a ship on the Great Barrier Reef. She now lives in Toronto and is a young adult author, a mother of two small children, and very, very tired. Her first novel. Transferral, was nominated for MYRCA, Snow Willow Award and Sunburst Awards. It was optioned for TV and translated into French. Her second novel, Tangled Planet, is out in Canada in autumn 2017, and in the US in spring 2018.

I tend to only review books I've loved - which is why my reviews are mostly 5*.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A gripping read that unravels mysterious murders both in the past during WWII and in the present, plus it has great insight into what it means to be “a good German” and a good person. Highly recommended for teen and adult readers!

[Emily Gillespie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This politically relevant & moving book is a page turner. I couldn't put it down & I love the message of the continued fight against facism. It's clear that many research hours went into this.