Angels in the gloom
By: Anne Perry
Series: World War One -- 3; World War One -- 3.
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780755302888; 9780755309795
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Fiction
Description: In March of 1916, Protestant chaplain Joseph Reavley is wounded. With his shrapnel-peppered broken arm and a shattered leg, he is sent back to Cambridge for surgery and a hospital stay. During his recuperation period at the Reavley family home in Cambridgeshire, he is thrust into investigating a murder case that places national security in peril. Meanwhile, the Germans are advancing along the Somme - and England is losing many ships to German U-boats...