Shadows In The Pool Of The Black Star, (Paperback)

<p><strong>Shadows In The Pool Of The Black Star: A Detective Gabriel O'Malley Novel</strong></p><p><strong>Where Sacred Geometry Meets Wartime Treason.</strong></p><p><strong>January in Winnipeg is a sentence, not a season.</strong> At thirty-five below zero, a bitter, hunting wind strips the warmth from the limestone walls of the Manitoba Legislative Building. But inside the grand structure, the chill is trapped-along with a horrifying secret.</p><p>When Detective Gabriel O'Malley is summoned to the building's lower rotunda at 2:00 AM, he finds a meticulously orchestrated stage of death. Sprawled dead-center on the black marble of the <strong>Pool of the Black Star</strong> lies Alistair Thorne, the powerful Minister of Strategic Resources, his neck cleanly snapped.</p><p>The crime seems completely impossible. The white marble floor surrounding the body is pristine. There are no scuffs, no street grime, and not a single melting boot print in the winter snow. It is as if the Minister materialized directly out of the heavy, pressurized air.</p><p>To solve a murder written in the silent language of Masonic symbols and Hermetic codes, O'Malley must turn to the one person who can translate the dark architecture of the city: Olena Petrenko, a sharp-minded mystical woman from the immigrant enclaves of the North End. Together, they are drawn into a high-stakes web of psychological warfare that stretches from the elite leather chairs of the Marlborough Hotel to the gritty foundries of the Point Douglas railyards.</p><p>As World War II rages overseas, Gabriel and Olena expose a staggering domestic conspiracy. Someone is altering the metrics of Canada's vital food supply, siphoning massive reserves of gold-standard wheat straight out the back door of a starving Empire.</p><p>But in a city pushed to the edge by wartime paranoia, turning on the light makes you a target. As the players in the shadow cabinet begin to systematically plummet from window ledges and disappear into the veins of the building, O'Malley realizes they aren't chasing a standard political assassin. They are hunting an invisible director who believes he walks above the physical world, a brilliant, vengeful mastermind who moves through the stone like a draft, waiting to claim his next sacrifice.</p><p><strong>For Fans of Greg Iles, James Patterson, and Historical Noir Fiction</strong></p><p>Shadows In The Pool Of The Black Star is a magnificent, multi-layered suspense novel that seamlessly bridges commercial pacing with rich, literary historical depth.</p><p></p>

• Shadows In The Pool Of The Black Star, (Paperback)
• Author: Sidestreet Media
• ISBN: 9781069985477
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-04
• Page Count: 274