Wednesday Night Whites
Lüneburg, Germany – May 23, 1945:
Heinrich Himmler has been captured by the enemy and is being held in a British military prison. He’s shaved off his moustache, eyebrows and hair, replaced his rimless spectacles with horned rimmed glasses, and told his clueless captors his name was Herr Hitzinger. They’d believed him, but Himmler desperately needs them to know how powerful he is—the true architect of the holocaust—so he tells them his real name.
When he’s taken for a routine medical examination, Himmler realizes his mistake, and bites on a vial of cyanide he’s hidden in his mouth. In the fifteen minutes it takes for him to die, he knows the future of the Third Reich is secure. His Lebensborn pure-blooded Aryan children will be making their way to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, where a large community of German descendants have made new lives since 1753. Under the tutelage and direction of famed Nazi doctors and escaped Nazi war criminals, he imagines Lunenburg will become a hub for white supremacists worldwide.
The Village of Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia – Present day:
Ruben Hollywood believes he is the grandson of Heinrich Himmler. He’s been trained by a cruel and brutal father to believe he’s the purest of the pure, the future of the human race. Women are to be used and abused with the sole purpose of being breed mares for the new Reich. And Ruben was encouraged to procreate liberally from an early age. Which he’d like to do, but for one problem. He’s impotent and has always been.
Even though he’s known as the best criminal defence lawyer in the province, with aspirations of being appointed the Supreme Court of Canada—where he intends to change the narrative on women’s rights, and anyone who isn’t heterosexual, or white—his anger festers until his violence is out of control.
As the small village of Chester, Nova Scotia, grapples with murder after murder, and domestic violence against women is at an all-time high, there’s only one common theme. The men charged with these crimes all belong to a club called the “Wednesday Night Whites” where their leader, cloaked in a white robe that covers his face, preaches white supremacy, and hatred of women.
The police are overwhelmed and the only evidence they have is circumstantial; not even enough to lay a charge. When famed Nazi-hunter, Padraig Cassidy, moves into the village, the terrified residents believe he’s their only hope. Who is committing these murders? And is it Ruben Hollywood? Padraig believes it is and so begins the most dangerous investigation of his career.
As violence escalates, Padraig—and a group of trusted colleagues—begin to unravel the shocking secrets that threaten to destroy them all.
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Graves Island
When forensic anthropologist, Marigold Merry, discovers 70-year-old human remains buried in the sand under the Graves Island Pier, she realizes her great-grandparents, who’d once owned the island, might not have been who she’d thought they were. Although they’d owned a dairy farm, supplying all of the village of Chester with milk, butter and cream, Marigold discovers they’d also run a home for unwed mothers from the island. And employed a suspicious Dutch doctor in 1945 to assist them.
But what did they really do? Why had their only son—Saint Clair Graves—who trained to become a doctor mysteriously disappear? What did her grandmother, Jasmine, know about all of this? And why had the Graves family built a 50-metre pier on the back end of the island?
Although the police investigate, and more bodies are discovered, the case has long grown cold. It would seem there are no clues to be had. Except, Marigold has discovered from examining the remains, every single person had been murdered. And in a very specific way.
So Marigold engages Padraig Cassidy and his firm, Cassidy Baker International—to help solve the murders. Who was the mysterious Dutch doctor who lived in her great-grandparents dairy farm and worked at their a home for unwed mothers? Who were the women? Where did the babies go? Were they sold? Or was their fate much more sinister?
The usual cast of characters is back in action, as they search for answers, and discover the true identity of Adonis Toph, creator and CEO of the Worldwide Organization of White Supremacists, and the man who single-handedly brought Toph Enterprises 2.0 to the pinnacle of success using the blueprint forged in Nazi Germany during the Nazi’s reign of terror.
GRAVES ISLAND by Marci Lin Melvin will be available on Amazon September 1st, 2026.
FORTRESS
It is 1758. The French Fortress of Louisbourg is on the brink of war. British Brigadier James Wolfe is a young man determined to prove himself worthy of the rank of major-general and plans to use the capture of the fortress to make good his claim.
The English have blockaded Louisbourg’s harbour for three years, and Governor Drucour knows that without the help of King Louis of France, the battle will be lost. Only his fortress, the imposing French bastion jutting towards the open Atlantic, stands sentinel against England’s capture of the new world.
Having infiltrated the confines of the fortress, “The Red Feather”, a notorious spy for the English, must choose between two loves—his country or Genevieve, the woman he has dreamt of for nearly a decade. But the titian-haired beauty knows more than she has led him to believe. To save Louisbourg, she will do anything—even play the role of devoted wife to the man who destroyed her life a decade before.
THE FORTRESS OF HER HEART
Louisbourg 1758: When the governor of the French Fortress of Louisbourg decrees that all unmarried women in the Fortress shall be wed before the English lay siege to it once again, Genevieve Henry is adamant that she will not go to the Chapelle. She has been abandoned at the altar once; she will not be humiliated again. But her mother prevails upon her, and she goes. As she suspected, even though there were plenty of soldiers marrying all the eligible young women, no one even casts an eye in her direction. Her relief is palpable, but as the priest snuffs out the candles, Genevieve is grabbed and dragged to the altar by a stranger who is no stranger, but rather the man who had jilted her ten years before. Can Genevieve open the fortress of her heart to a man she suspects is a spy for the English?
THIN GLASS HOUSES
April Storm is the twenty-third young woman to disappear in the Chester, Nova Scotia. The residents are panic-stricken. The police are stymied. And there are no clues as to who is responsible for these crimes. The families of the missing women seek the help of Crandel Christmas, a successful and well-known criminal defence lawyer, who agrees to take the case. As he strings together clues, he discovers someone is stealing crucial evidence from his file—someone in his firm.
With few exceptions, the lawyers at ‘Christmas, Dibbles and Weiberhass’ have only two things in common: their smouldering hatred for one another … and their insatiable greed.
Then yet another woman goes missing, her effigy is found flaming on a cross, and the accused is denied bail and murdered in jail. Crandel realizes that everyone in his firm is suspect. But when he is kidnapped and left for dead, he knows he has to trust at least one of his colleagues to help bring down the most evil misogynist of all time.
“If you can’t put Thin Glass Houses down once you start reading it, join the club. M.M. Melvin’s twisting and fast-paced plot, heart thumping suspense, and dry humour, will keep the reader up long after everyone else has gone to sleep. It’s a masterpiece of criminal suspense.” Best-selling author Vernon Oickle.
