Death on Masada: A Maurice Bordeau Murder Mystery

by Larry Vardiman

Masada Shall Never Fall AgainThe B4 Detective Agency has free time between murder investigations during a three-week visit to the Holy Land. Stacie Schlomo, an Israeli Mossad Agent who helped hire Bordeau as a consultant offers to take his team to tour the Masada National Monument. While Bordeau's team is at the historical site a large group of Orthodox Jews in black, remove all tourists from the mountain to stage a protest. Stacie's small tour group is overlooked and swept up in the protest. They help recover the body of a fallen tourist, treat the head protestors for wounds, and capture the shooter. The Israeli Defense Force liberates Masada, but Stacie and Bordeau's team is arrested along with the protestors. Will they escape Masada or be incarcerated and charged as terrorists?

188 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 23, 2022

About the author

Larry Vardiman is a paleoclimatologist retired in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He's published dozens of technical books, articles, and monographs. Now he's pursuing his passion of writing novels in the style of Agatha Christie, Tom Clancy, and Patrick O'Brien. Look for 'Green Bayous', 'Moon Bubbles', 'UCLA Body Stasher', 'White Death', 'The Chicago Boys', and 'Tunnels of Manhattan.'
He's traveled extensively and finds it easy to describe locations and cultures from personal experience. He loves to cook and eat allowing him to include descriptions of mouth-watering meals enjoyed by his detectives, Maurice Bordeau and Anthony Bristol. Last, but not least, he's an anglophile who loves to add humorous interplays between his French and British characters.