Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the City police, has asked for
Richard Jury’s help. Two skeletons have been unearthed
during the excavation of London’s last bomb site, where
once stood a pub called the Blue Last. The grandchild of
brewery magnate Oliver Tynedale supposedly survived that
December 1940 bombing…but did she? Then the son of the
onetime owner of the Blue Last is found shot to death—the
book he was writing about London during the German
blitzkrieg…gone. A stolen life, a stolen book? Or is any
of this what it seems? With Melrose Plant sent undercover,
Jury calls into question identity, memory, and provenance
in a case that resurrects his own hauntingly sad past…