What We Buried, Rotenberg - B+

                Daniel Kennicott, Toronto PD detective, avoids an attempt to run him down outside his home.  He is shaken and ponders his family's tragedies.  A dozen years before, his parents had been killed in what was officially an accident, but which he and his brother believe was intentional.  Ten years before, his brother was murdered the night before he was to depart for Gubbio, Italy, a small town that had some connection to his grandmother.  Daniel takes a leave and heads there.  He learns of the Quaranta, the day in 1944 when the Germans murdered 40 locals in cold blood.  Later that same night, the villagers tell him that his mother's father, Grandpa Smith, was in Gubbio, in the SS, but was in the hospital that day.  Daniel's mother was a research historian who had uncovered her father's past and the Italians believe that she and her oldest son were murdered by those still trying to protect two SS men's families in Canada.  Although I'd have preferred a bit more clarity in the epilogue, the final third of the book and the conclusion are absolutely first rate in tying together events during the war and in today's Toronto. Excellent police novel with some great detective work and historically enlightening.  Excellent.