It was August 17th, 1942. The war is moving into a new stage, characterized on the home front by the arrival of the American forces, especially in the newly-built airfields of East Anglia. Civilians everywhere are having to adjust to the presence of the GIs. Meanwhile, WDS Suzie Mountford has been returned to Tommy Livermore's Reserve Squad at Scotland Yard, as his protegee and clandestine fiancee. When an eminent barrister, Peter Knight, is brutally murdered, along with his wife and young son, 'Dandy Tom' and his team are called in to investigate. Within hours their enquiries take them to the small Norfolk village of Long Newford, home of the Knight family since Norman times. There Suzie starts to unravel the sinister motives behind this murder, and its connection with American Air Force personnel stationed nearby...
- ISBN10 0727874691
- ISBN13 9780727874696
- Publish Date 28 October 2005 (first published 26 March 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English