London, June 1940.  When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings in Fitrovia, the coroner rules her death as suicide, but DI Ted Stratton of the CID is not convinced.  Despite opposition from his superiors, he starts asking questions and it becomes clear that Morgan's fatal fall from a high window may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters.

MI5 Agent Diana Calthrop, working with senior official Sir Neville Apse, is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is involved in espionage.  She must treat carefully - Apse is a powerful man and she can't risk threatening the reputation of the Secret Service.  Only when Stratton's path crosses Diana's do they start to uncover the truth - that the intrigues of the Secret Service are alarmingly similar to the machinations of war-torn London's underworld.

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Laura Wilson

Laura Wilson is an English crime-writer based in London, where she was born and raised. She has degrees in English Literature form Somerville College, Oxford, and University College London, and has worked as a teacher and editor of non-fiction.

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Series: Ted Stratton

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