Author: Mike Hollow
Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780749026134
Rights: World English
Pub. Date: 18th March 2021
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Price: £19.99
Format: Hardback
Part of the series:
The Blitz Detective
November 1940. Darkness descends and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the industrial heartland of London from enemy attack. As a policeman patrols the Royal Albert Dock, something catches his eye – a man is sprawled awkwardly across a nearby barge, a dagger lodged in his back.
Detective Inspector John Jago of West Ham CID discovers the victim was a dock worker by day and a Home Guard volunteer by night – and there are things even his wife doesn’t know about his past. As Jago investigates the murder, As the investigation unfolds, Jago he uncovers a widening circle of secrets ranging across family tensions, the last war and a far-flung corner of the British Empire.