The Soho Murder

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.