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Von: William Gomes
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London, November 1956. A message has been sent four minutes before anyone asked for it.In a departmental review room, Eleanor Vane spends her days among the paper remnants of other people's decisions: cable traffic, routing slips, carbon copies and files that have passed through too many hands to attract attention.Then she notices something that should be impossible.A repeat transmission from Nicosia left at 09:52. London's request for that repeat was not sent until 09:56. Four minutes separate the two records. Four minutes that should not exist. What begins as a discrepancy in a transmission log draws Eleanor towards the death of Andreas Markou, a cable-room supervisor in Cyprus, and towards his sister Irini, who possesses her brother's private record of serials and times.As Eleanor follows the documentary trail from London to Cyprus, every answer produces another problem. Registers record what was entered. Clocks record what somebody thought the time was. Files preserve what somebody decided belonged in them. And a chain of individually accurate records can still leave crucial spaces between one version of events and another.The deeper Eleanor goes, the more the investigation becomes a question not only of what happened, but of what can be proved, what should be written down, and what happens to the people whose names enter an official record.Set in 1956, Winter Cable is a restrained and atmospheric literary historical mystery about evidence, bureaucracy, secrecy, colonial administration and moral responsibility, and about the unsettling distance between an event and the record that survives it.For readers drawn to intelligent, slow-burning historical fiction in which the smallest discrepancy opens onto much larger questions, Winter Cable is a quietly gripping novel about truth, responsibility and the human cost of making a record.©2026 William Gomes (P)2026 William Gomes Historische Krimis Historische Romane Krimis
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