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A Death in the Afternoon

The Clapham Trilogy, Book 2

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A Death in the Afternoon

By: Julie Anderson
Narrated by: Annabelle Dowler
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Summer 1948

London swelters amid post-war reconstruction, while continued rationing and the black-market fuel the rising crime wave and the empires of gangland bosses are protected by corruption and bribery. During a party in Clapham a student nurse from the South London Hospital for Women and Children dies in a fall from a balcony.

Is it an accident as the local police believe? Or something more sinister?

A newly qualified detective constable is asked by the nurse’s friends to investigate and before long they are all drawn into the criminals’ deadly games, as gangsters jostle for territory and power. With the solution almost within their grasp, their lives are threatened and one of them faces a dreadful fate. Can the others find her before it’s too late?

And what is the truth about A Death in the Afternoon

©2025 Julie Anderson (P)2025 Isis Audio Crime Historical Mystery Police Procedurals Women Sleuths
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Loved the period detail, evocative depiction of post war London and its misogynistic police force

Immersive with strong female characters and mystery

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