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Death in a Blackout
Billie Harkness (Related to this series)
- Author
- Jessica Ellicott
- Narrator
- Elizabeth Sastre
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 3 May 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Unable to stay in the village she loves, Wilhelmina—reinventing herself as Billie—spends everything she has on a one-way ticket up north. Hull is a distant, dangerous city, but Billie is determined to leave her painful memories behind and start afresh, whatever the cost.
The last thing she expects on her first night in Hull, however, is to be caught in the city’s first air raid—or to stumble across the body of a young woman, suspiciously untouched by debris.
If the air raid didn’t kill the glamorous stranger, what did? Billie is determined to get justice, and her persistence earns her an invitation to the newly formed Women’s Police Constabulary. But as the case unfolds, putting her at odds with
both high-ranking members of the force as well as the victim’s powerful family, Billie begins to wonder if she can trust her new friends and colleagues … or if someone amongst them is working for the enemy.
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Details
- Author
- Jessica Ellicott
- Narrator
- Elizabeth Sastre
- Duration
- 9 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 May 2022
- ISBN
- 9781705051801
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Synopsis
1940. Britain is at war. Rector’s daughter Wilhelmina Harkness longs to do her duty for her country, but when her strict mother forbids her to enlist, their bitter argument has devasting consequences. Unable to stay in the village she loves, Wilhelmina—reinventing herself as Billie—spends everything she has on a one-way ticket up north. Hull is a distant, dangerous city, but Billie is determined to leave her painful memories behind and start afresh, whatever the cost.The last thing she expects on her first night in Hull, however, is to be caught in the city’s first air raid—or to stumble across the body of a young woman, suspiciously untouched by debris.If the air raid didn’t kill the glamorous stranger, what did? Billie is determined to get justice, and her persistence earns her an invitation to the newly formed Women’s Police Constabulary. But as the case unfolds, putting her at odds with both high-ranking members of the force as well as the victim’s powerful family, Billie begins to wonder if she can trust her new friends and colleagues … or if someone amongst them is working for the enemy.
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