Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the City police, has asked for Richard Juryβs help. Two skeletons have been unearthed during the excavation of Londonβs last bomb site, where once stood a pub called the Blue Last. The grandchild of brewery magnate Oliver Tynedale supposedly survived that December 1940 bombingβ¦but did she? Then the son of the onetime owner of the Blue Last is found shot to deathβthe book he was writing about London during the German blitzkriegβ¦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 pastβ¦
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