A past crime causes new murder in the latest intriguing Kate O’Donnell mystery
1964. Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard has been ordered to track down notorious Soho club owner Ray Robertson, who hasn’t been seen for several days. The case takes on a greater urgency when a battered body is discovered at the gym Ray owns. Is Ray the killer … or is he a victim?
Photographer Kate O’Donnell meanwhile is working on a feature about the regeneration of Canvey Island, finally being rebuilt after the devastating East Coast floods of 1953. But as Kate and Harry are about to discover, the Canvey Island floods, the murder and Ray Robertson’s disappearance are connected in more ways than one …
About the author
Patricia Hall has been a journalist with the BBC and Guardian newspaper, and is the author of more than twenty crime novels, including the popular ‘Ackroyd & Thackeray’ series set in her native Yorkshire. She lives near Oxford.