Book
Chateau Saint-Pierre
A contemporary literary thriller following a dead colleague's final message into buried wartime records and private power.
Book Summary
Chateau Saint-Pierre opens in present-day London when Tom Ashworth receives a timed email from his former colleague Andrew Pearce, hours after Andy's death. The message points to a safe-deposit trail and revives a buried story involving French gravestones, a family history, and threats that never went away.
Across multiple parts, Tom and key allies follow records, names, and financial structures that link personal memory to wider historical concealment. The novel blends investigative momentum with moral weight, showing how archival fragments, witness testimony, and patient journalism can expose what powerful systems prefer to keep buried.
By the closing sections, the book lands not as a simple conspiracy victory but as an act of accountability carried over years. It honours the dead, restores names where possible, and argues that careful truth-telling, however slow, is still a form of justice.