Title: The Great Darkness
Description: 1939, Cambridge: The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout--The Great Darkness--covers southern England, enveloping the city. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. Daylight reveals a corpse on the riverside, the body torn apart by some unspeakable force. Brooke investigates, calling on the expertise and inspiration of a faithful group of fellow 'nighthawks' across the city, all condemned, like the detective, to a life lived away from the light. Within hours The Great Darkness has claimed a second victim. War, it seems, has many victims, but what links these crimes of the night?
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Investigation, World War, 1939-1945, History, Murder, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, England, fiction
Places: Cambridge, England, Cambridge (England)
Time periods: 20th century