It’s 1940, and Britain is hiding in the darkness of the blackout – until Hitler unleashes the terror of the Blitz. His bombs rain down, and the night skies of London are lit up by fire. They say you could read a newspaper by its light.
It’s 1940, and Britain is hiding in the darkness of the blackout – until Hitler unleashes the terror of the Blitz. His bombs rain down, and the night skies of London are lit up by fire. They say you could read a newspaper by its light.
Life changes overnight – suddenly it seems there’s death round every corner. But murder is still murder – and bombs or no bombs, for Detective Inspector John Jago of the Metropolitan Police the hunt for justice must go on.
Detective Inspector John Jago’s latest case:
(October 2024)
As New Year’s Eve approaches, the St Paul’s Cathedral area has suffered London’s worst air raid since the Blitz started. Waves of incendiary bombs have burnt the heart of British book publishing to the ground. Detective Inspector John Jago finds a desolate woman among the ruins of her family business and must break the news – her husband’s been shot dead at their home in Soho. An antiquarian bookseller, he’d just acquired a mysterious volume that’s priceless – and missing. Did someone covet it enough to kill for it? Obsessive collectors and unscrupulous dealers haunt Jago’s descent into Soho’s underworld, where he finds criminals are branching out in the shadows of the blackout.
Here’s the rest of the series, in chronological order: