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Battling the elements — the coldest British winter in centuries - and coming to terms with the death of her fiancé in a motor racing accident, enquiry agent Leigh Mansfield finds herself embroiled in a studio of secrets, a murder mystery, and the reason for secret agent John Argent's involvement.

It's 1931 in Berlin, and the world is on the precipice of change -- the affluent still dance in their gilded cages but more and more people are living under threat and poverty. Hannah Vogel is a crime reporter forced to write under the male pseudonym Peter Weill. As a widow of the Great War, she's used to doing what she must to survive. Her careful facade is threatened when she stumbles across a photograph of her brother in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead.

Following the events of A Trace of Smoke, journalist Hannah Vogel has been in hiding in Bolivia with her young ward, Anton, for the past three years. She believes she has outwitted Ernst Röhm, the head of the Nazi Party’s Storm Troopers who believes himself to be the boy’s father, so she seizes the offer from a newspaper to cover the journey of a zeppelin from South America to Switzerland, particularly as it will allow her a rare opportunity to meet with her lover, Boris Krause. When the zeppelin is diverted to Germany, she knows she’s walked straight into a trap.

March 1945. After six bloody, tear-stained years, the war was nearly over. However, for the German prisoners of war incarcerated in Island Farm Camp 198, the end could not arrive soon enough, so they decided to escape. As the German prisoners fled to all points of the compass, one of their members, Kurt Schneider, was left with blood on his fingers and a gun in his hand.

Bei ihrer Doktorarbeit über die Entstehung von Heldenmythen macht Zoe Farwell eine Entdeckung: Ihr Vorfahre Gerald Farwell, der wie ein Heiliger verehrt wird, ist anscheinend ermordet worden. Doch warum findet sich dazu nichts in den Akten? Ihre Neugierde ist geweckt. Liverpool, 1839. Ein Mörder geht um in der Stadt, der es speziell auf Prostituierte abgesehen hat. Doch für ermordete Dirnen fühlt sich die örtliche Polizei nicht zuständig. Einzig Madeline Brown, mit einer der getöteten Huren eng befreundet, verlangt Aufklärung. Doch die Polizei bleibt untätig.