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Synopsis
London, July 1946. A woman's body is found in a disused bomb site off the Holloway Road. She is identified as Lillian Frobisher, 'a respectable wife and mother' who lived with her family nearby. The police assume that Lillian must have been the victim of a sexual assault; but when the autopsy finds no evidence of rape, they turn their attention to her private life... How did she come to be in the bomb site, a well-known lovers' haunt? Why was her husband seemingly unaware that she'd failed to come home on the night she was killed?
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"Elegant - spell-binding" --Daily Mail "Brilliantly evoked" --Sunday Times "A classic whodunit at its very best" --The Express "A cracking book" --Lorraine Kelly "A writer with a rare and singular dedication to authenticity - the atmosphere Busby evokes is as melancholic as Graham Greene's The End of the Affair." --Valerie Grove, The Times "It is a fitting monument to a writer of rare subtlety" --Mail on Sunday "Demonstrates her special strength as a teller of authentic, poignant stories. " --Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph "The sense of austerity and a crippled city recovering from war permeates every page, while the arrival of rumpled Divisional Detective Inspector Jim Cooper just adds to its striking authenticity." --Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail "This is the best new book that I have read in a long time. It's a cliche but I really could not put it down. The backdrop of London in 1946 is set out perfectly and the characters draw you in to their world with ease." --Good Reads website
About the Author
Sian Busby was an award-winning writer, broadcaster and film maker. She published four books, including The Cruel Mother, a memoir of her great-grandmother which won the Mind Book Award in 2004. She was married to the BBC Business editor, Robert Peston, and had two sons. She died in September 2012.
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