Wednesday Night Whites
Wednesday Night Whites weaves a chilling tale that begins with Heinrich Himmler’s suicide in 1945, where he envisions the survival of the Nazi cause through Aryan children sent to Nova Scotia. Decades later, in Chester, Nova Scotia, Ruben Hollywood—who believes himself to be Himmler’s grandson—emerges as a respected but deeply violent lawyer whose white supremacist ideology and misogyny fuel a secret society called the “Wednesday Night Whites.” As domestic violence and murders plague the small community, suspicion falls on Ruben, but police lack evidence. When renowned Nazi-hunter Padraig Cassidy arrives, he leads a perilous investigation into the group’s activities, uncovering terrifying secrets that threaten to engulf the village in escalating violence.
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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 domestic violence 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 Himmelman? 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 secret that threatens to destroy them all.
Prairie Book Review:
“Haunting, incisive, and unflinching… Melvin weaves history into the present with unsettling clarity, showing how old ideologies find new ways to survive, especially when masked by politeness and power… A devastating and clear-eyed thriller that examines how evil embeds itself in ordinary places.”
Literary Titan Book Review:
“Wednesday Night Whites is a taut and provocative thriller… The writing is crisp and fast, the kind that doesn’t ask for your attention but grabs it by the collar and won’t let go.”
