A WWII Thriller · Lake Como · 1945

On Lake Como, the war ended with a secret. Eighty years later, someone’s still hiding it.

A historical thriller built on the real, unsolved mystery of what vanished on these shores in April 1945 — and the fortune, and the bodies, that were never found.

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Lake Como Secrets — book cover by Michael Jones
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A debut thriller by Michael Jones. For readers of Dan Brown & Ken Follett.
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Every location in Lake Como Secrets exists. The roadblock, the piazza, the gate, the shoreline — you can stand exactly where history stopped adding up.

Site 01 — Musso46.11°N 9.27°E
The Roadblock
27 April 1945. Partisans of the 52nd Garibaldi Brigade halt a retreating German convoy on the lakeside road. In one of the trucks: a man in a corporal’s greatcoat who is not a corporal.
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Site 02 — Dongo46.12°N 9.28°E
Piazza & Palazzo Manzi
The seized convoy is inventoried here — gold, currency, documents. Much of it never reaches Milan. The palazzo now houses the Museum of the End of the War. Stand in the room.
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Site 03 — Giulino di Mezzegra45.97°N 9.20°E
The Gate of Villa Belmonte
28 April 1945, late afternoon. The official story says everything ended at this gate. The official story has never quite added up — and the paperwork disagrees with itself.
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Site 04 — Tremezzina45.98°N 9.22°E
The Shoreline
Villas, boathouses, and a lake that keeps what it’s given. This is where the novel begins — eighty years later, a few hundred metres from where it all ended.
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Launching 28 April 2027 — eighty-two years to the day.
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