We Bury Nothing - by Kate Blair (Paperback)

About the Book

Keira lands a prestigious summer internship at a museum built atop a former WWII prisoner of war camp, but her summer is disrupted by two suspicious deaths, which might be connected to her research on the unsolved murder of a German POW in 1945 amid a seemingly impossible escape attempt.

Book Synopsis

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 project: 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 ...

Review Quotes

"[Kate Blair] captures both the current political climate and the life of a German soldier coming to realize the horror of what he has been raised to believe. Erich is a fully developed character who experiences a cruel death, and readers will sympathize with Keira's effort to find justice for him almost 80 years later."--Lyn Miller-Lachmann "Historical Novel Society"

"We Bury Nothing is a fascinating and well-written young adult mystery that sheds light on a little-known aspect of Canada during WWII and ties it to current right-wing extremism and persecution of marginalized communities."--Melanie Marttila "The Seaboard Review"