Books by Tim Byers
Luxembourg War Stories
In the Garden at Midnight
Cologne, 1942—A girl digging up the past finds a secret the Gestapo will kill to keep buried.
Seventeen-year-old Karin Blik breaks curfew during the thousand-bomber raid and stumbles into a web that reaches back to Luxembourg and the mystery of her father’s past. As the Hitler Youth, BDM, Gestapo, and Cologne’s street gangs close in around her, Karin must navigate loyalties where truth is used as a weapon.
A Luxembourg War Story
The Order of the Red Lion
August, 1939. A boy searches the tunnels of Luxembourg City with an unlikely friend and discovers a dangerous truth.
Fifteen-year-old Hansi would rather draw in his sketchbook along the casemate walls than think about the coming war. But then, explosive events awaken him to the growing threat. An unlikely friend joins his search for truth.
Will courage be enough to stop the growing threat?
A Luxembourg War Story
The Vianden Deception
May, 1940. As the German Army pours across the border, a young man learns that deception can be as deadly as any bullet.
Setting out on what promised to be a routine mission, sixteen-year-old Hansi tries to honor a promise when everything goes wrong. And only gets worse.
Meanwhile, Karin will do almost anything to help her friend.
But who can they trust?
A Luxembourg War Story
In The Garden At Midnight
May, 1942. A young woman uncovers a truth the Gestapo would kill to keep buried.
Events in Luxembourg cast shadow all the way to seventeen-year-old Karin in Cologne. When a simple act of service draws the attention of the regime, she learns the dangerous game of propaganda and power with the BDM, Hitler Youth, and Gestapo.
Winners survive, losers die, and players must do everything to survive.
A Luxembourg War Story