Dead in the Water: A gripping second World War 2 crime novel (The DCI Frank Merlin Series Book 5)
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‘An atmospheric, compelling evocation of war-torn London in the wake of the Blitz, where DCI Frank Merlin fights against a tidal wave of crime’ Geoffrey Wansell, Crime and Thriller Reviewer, DAILY MAIL
Summer, 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 investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle .
‘This is to my shame the first Mark Ellis book I’ve read. If the others evoke a vanished London so impressively, are graced with such complex plots and deep characterisation, and, above all, are written so well I shall have to read them all.’ THE TIMES – PICKS OF THE WEEK
‘Extraordinarily atmospheric and compelling, DEAD IN THE WATER is a wonderfully intelligent and complex story’ CHRIS LLOYD, HWA Gold Crown Award winner.
‘A very satisfying puzzle, expertly crafted’ HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY