The Dead of Winter
06 December 2010Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, retired Inspector John Madden returns in Rennie Airth's The Dead of Winter.
During a blackout on the streets of London on a freezing evening in late 1944, a young Polish land girl, Rosa Nowak, is suddenly and brutally killed. For the police, their resources already stretched by war regulations and the thriving...
Details
06 December 2010432 pages
9780230740259Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
An excellent and convincing evocation of wartime London.C. J. Sansom
A superlative detective novel . . . Airth's John Madden novels are must-reads.Daily Express
Compelling . . . Airth's atmosphere of London at war is superb.The Times
