A sleeper train rushes headlong toward what was to be the dawn of a joyful holiday weekend. But both crew members are unconscious, the passengers asleep. Nothing will prevent a crash. Emergency crews can only watch in desperation.
This is no accident. Someone is meant to die.
Major Jack Torrance is trying to come to grips with being a spy. Is he always on the side of what's right or is it a matter of not being on the side of what's worse? Events often move too quickly to be able to tell.
The explosion that morning was heard for miles. Everything stopped. The blast was meant to conceal a murder – a truly senseless death that confounds Jimmy and his team. But the tragedy does not stop there.
A sunny, lazy autumn day. A bronze plaque, with the names of WWII dead, is being mounted on the city cenotaph. A chain breaks; the heavy plaque swings wildly and pierces the wall of the memorial.
Two middle-aged women from the Barrachois army base die. Jimmy
and Notepad Urquhart are summoned to investigate – but on the strict
understanding there will be no hope of ever prosecuting the murderer.
This will be a Death in Secret.
A young soldier’s act of heroism sweeps him into the belle époque world of kidnapping, espionage, and revolution.
The sergeant got to the big double doors and pulled open the right-hand one. He stopped suddenly, his broad frame filling the door frame. Uquhart felt the hair rise on the back of his neck and he ran to be beside his friend. The others followed.
‘Oh, my God,’ said Sloan, who ripped open the other door and ran onto the deck of the pool.
There, in the centre of the water’s placid surface, floated the slim body of a young woman, dressed in the day uniform of a maid in the employ of Castle Clyburn. She was face down and her dark hair floated wide. The sergeant clutched the door with white knuckles.
Sloan kicked off his shoes, removed his socks, and dove in. It was a clean dive and Urquhart watched as Sloan swam, in just three powerful strokes, to beside the young woman. Sloan rolled her part-way over, then looked up at Sergeant MacDonald.
To his dismay, Jack’s unerring spy craft lays the groundwork for an international conflict.
Inspector Jimmy Urquhart, new cop and new in town, isn't ready to be in charge of a high-profile murder case. But he is.
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