Ronald H. Balson

Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart

1 - Once We Were Brothers (Feb-2010)
2 - Saving Sophie (Sep-2015)
3 - Karolina's Twins (Sep-2016)
4 - The Trust (Sep-2017)
5 - The Girl from Berlin (Oct-2018)
6 - Defending Britta Stein (Sep-2021)

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  Once We Were Brothers
  

  • Feb-2010
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  Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart - 1
  

  The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust."A novel of survival, justice and redemption...riveting." -- Chicago Tribune, on Once We Were BrothersElliot Rosenzweig, a respected ...

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  Saving Sophie
  

  • Sep-2015
  • / Legal Thriller
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  Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart - 2
  

  From Ronald H. Balson, author of Once We Were Brothers, Saving Sophie is the powerful story of the lengths a father will go through to protect his daughter and an action-packed thriller that will take you on an unforgettable journey of murder and dec...

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  Karolina's Twins
  

  • Sep-2016
  • / Historical
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  Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart - 3
  

  She made a promise in desperation Now it's time to keep it Lena Woodward, elegant and poised, has lived a comfortable life among Chicago Society since she immigrated to the US and began a new life at the end of World War II. But now something has...

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  The Trust
  

  • Sep-2017
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  Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart - 4
  

  The Trust, from Ronald H. Balson, the international bestselling author of Once We Were Brothers, finds private investigator Liam Taggart returning to his childhood home for an uncle's funeral, only to discover his death might not have been natural. ...

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  The Girl from Berlin
  

  • Oct-2018
  • / Historical
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  Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart - 5
  

  In the newest novel from internationally-bestselling author Ronald. H. Balson, Liam and Catherine come to the aid of an old friend and are drawn into a property dispute in Tuscany that unearths long-buried secrets An old friend calls Catherine Loc...

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  Eli's Promise
  

  • Sep-2020
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  A "fixer" in a Polish town during World War II, his betrayal of a Jewish family, and a search for justice 25 years later by the winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Eli’s Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning th...

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  Defending Britta Stein
  

  • Sep-2021
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  Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart - 6
  

  One of Newsweek's 20 New Books to Cozy Up With this FallDefending Britta Stein is a story of bravery, betrayal, and redemption -- from Ronald H. Balson, the winner of the National Jewish Book AwardChicago, 2018: Ole Henryks, a popular restauranteur, ...

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  An Affair of Spies
  

  • Sep-2022
  • / Thriller
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  From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award -- Ronald H. Balson's An Affair of Spies tells of a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb.Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, th...

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  A Place to Hide
  

  • Sep-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  From the winner of the National Jewish Book AwardTheodore “Teddy” Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington, D.C. family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat’s career. In 1938, as Hitler’s ine...

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  The Righteous
  

  • Sep-2025
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  From the New York Times bestselling and National Jewish Book Award�"winning author: a gripping novel of foreboding, betrayal, heroism, and hope set in World War II BudapestBy the end of 1943, nearly all of Europe’s Jewish population had fled, been...

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