検索キーワード： "Julia Kelly" ミステリー・スリラー・サスペンス

Freshly graduated from a rigorous training program in all things spy craft, former typist Evelyne Redfern is eager for her first assignment as a field agent helping Britain win the war. However, when she learns her first task is performing a simple security test at Blackthorn Park, a requisitioned manor house in the sleepy Sussex countryside, she can’t help her initial disappointment. Making matters worse, her handler is to be David Poole, a fellow agent who manages to be both strait-laced and dashing in annoyingly equal measure.

1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as “The Parisian Orphan” as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father’s old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use all of her amateur sleuthing expertise to find the killer.

November 1888: Als Scotland Yard den toten Joseph Harrison am Ufer der Themse findet, versucht Sherlock Holmes, den Kontakt mit Rahel Howells wieder aufzunehmen. Von Howells erfährt er, dass sie den Anführer der Londoner Unterwelt-Organisation identifiziert hat, aber für die Herausgabe des Namens stellt sie Bedingungen. Holmes ringt Inspektor Lestrade einen Handel ab: eine neue Identität für Howells gegen den Namen des Verbrecheroberhaupts. Während Lestrade die Papiere organisiert, wird Holmes von dem jungen Hall Pycroft kontaktiert, der befürchtet, einer betrügerischen Firma aufgesessen zu sein.

Alec Reid’s ghosts of the 21st century seldom lurk in old houses or waft across chilly moors. His dark tales may breathe alongside the supernatural, but they take place in broad daylight, in our daily lives. Their themes include dead warriors resurrected via Bluetooth, Rumpelstiltskin in the suburbs, an algorithmic fear of ghosts, and the shattered dreams of immortality. The world they describe is the one you inhabit, but you would live in terror were you to recognize it for what it is.