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The Great Darkness
- Author
- Jim Kelly
- Narrator
- Peter Wickham
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Publish Date
- 1 July 2018
- Run Time
- 9 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Jim Kelly
- Narrator
- Peter Wickham
- Duration
- 9 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 July 2018
- ISBN
- 9781407974156
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction
Synopsis
Cambridge, 1939. 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?
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