Just as his career reaches dizzying heights in Hollywood, screenwriter Lawrence Ross finds his personal life falling apart. He escapes Los Angeles and takes what he thinks will be an easy assignment in England, writing a miniseries about a British war hero and parliamentarian. It turns out to be anything but restful. Following up on inconsistencies between public and private accounts, Lawrence is surprised to be drawn into a mysterious web of intrigue that spreads across the continent and behind the barbed wire fences of Albania, where the grisly secrets of a horrific Nazi atrocity lay hidden. Fortunately, Lawrence's sense of humor never deserts him and, along with a little help from a zany straggler from an American package tour, he survives what rapidly becomes a deadly ordeal. By the time he returns to L.A., Lawrence has not only confronted the dark truths of Europe's past-and present-but come face to face with his own internal demons. The Torch Singer is a mystery and an adventure, but it's also a love story, in which a Hollywood writer rediscovers his own soul and, in the process, a kindred spirit-in the unlikeliest of places.