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A lone German bomber crosses the east coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and, following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. DI Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, beside her shattered bed in a terrace house on Elm Street, two fingers on her left hand severed, in what looks like a brutal attempt by looters to steal her rings. When the next day Nora's teenage granddaughter, Peggy, a munitions worker at Marshall's Airfield, is reported missing, Brooke realises there is more to the situation than meets the eye.

©2020 Jim Kelly (P)2020 W. F. Howes Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Police Procedural Women Sleuths Women's Fiction
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The story is really good, and the characters are effectively rounded. It is a bit formulaic, but that’s the nature of the genre. Having said that, the author deals with the demands of a police procedural with style and wit. The only exception was the point of reflection at the grave of the detective’s mentor, which was a little on the nose. If you’re into this genre it won’t disappoint. I’d give it an 8/10

A good story with plenty of twists

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easy listen interesting story. Well narrated by Kris Dyer. his voice is very soothing

Easy listen

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not bad but not great. I was expecting more detail of war time england. but this turned out to be a murder mystery in a ww2 setting. disappointed.

it was okay

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