The Room of the Dead: A gripping WW2 crime mystery

✍ Scribed by M.R.C. Kasasian

• Book ID: 110772743
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 596 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781788546386
• ASIN: B07H98V5P2

✦ Synopsis

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.