A cold-blooded killer stalks a sleepy Suffolk town in this pitch-perfect WWII crime mystery. December 1939. Sackwater Police Station feels a million miles from the war effort. Elderly Mr Orchard keeps wandering off in his pyjamas, little Sylvia Satin is having a birthday party, and a bookmark has been reported stolen. Inspector Betty Church - one of the few female officers on the force - is longing for something to get her teeth into... When a bomb is dropped on Sackwater, it seems the war has finally reached them. But Betty can't stop Adolf, however hard she tries. So when a dead man is found on the beach, she concentrates on hunting an enemy much closer to home. 'Eccentric and entertaining with a nicely complex plot'Crime Review. 'A wonderfully gripping old-fashioned murder mystery' The Lady.
| ISBN: | 9781788546393 |
| Publication date: | 11th July 2019 |
| Author: | M R C Kasasian |
| Publisher: | Head of Zeus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 426 pages |
| Series: | Betty Church Mysteries |
| Genres: |
Historical crime and mysteries Second World War fiction Fiction |