Quiet Hands of Marseille
A Novel of the French Resistance

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Marseille, autumn 1942. The Mediterranean light is as bright as ever, but the city has gone quiet the way a room goes quiet when someone is listening.

Odette Marchand has made gloves in the old Panier quarter since she was a girl, and she is good at the one thing the work demands: keeping her hands still. Inside a lady's cuff, in a pocket no bigger than a postage stamp, she hides the messages that keep a small resistance network alive. She does not read them. She does not ask. She only sews, and delivers, and smiles at the customers.

Then a polite police inspector walks into her shop with a paper tracing of his wife's ruined hand and asks for the finest pair of gloves in the city.

Inspector Lucien Verdier is patient, courteous and never wrong about a detail. He does not raid. He measures. As the weeks pass, Odette must forge bread tickets with the same blade she uses to cut kid leather, move frightened families from attic to cellar one step ahead of his notebook, and work out which of her friends is feeding him the one secret he wants: the night a Spanish steamer will carry fourteen people out of France.

The deadline is fixed. The tide will not wait. And the only way out of the Panier may be across its rooftops, down to the black water of the docks, and past a man who knows the exact size of her hands.

An atmospheric, humane wartime thriller of safe houses, forged papers, divided loyalties and one impossible night, with no graphic violence and a heroine whose courage is all in the stitches.

Historical espionage thriller.