Death of an Officer Martin Edwards British Library Publishing FFC Paperback 2025 settling into a normal life

settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules

but what should have been an idyllic holiday takes on a new and unwelcome aspect with the discovery of the previous owner's body in the cellar

Until one day

In a series of vignettes full of affection

who had formed a romantic attachment to the murdered attendant

Death of an Officer Martin Edwards British Library Publishing FFC Paperback 2025 settling into a normal lifeSummer, 1942. The Second World War rages on, but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two? Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they