The Canning Town Murder, Mike Hollow
The Canning Town Murder, Mike Hollow
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The Canning Town Murder

Author: Mike Hollow

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 01/01/2021


Synopsis

September 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet just across the Channel in occupied France, Britain is full of talk about enemy agents. Suspicion is at an all time high and no one is sure who can be trusted. In Canning Town, rescue workers are unsettled when they return to a damaged street and discover a body that shouldn’t be there. When closer examination of the corpse reveals death by strangling, Detective Inspector John Jago is called upon to investigate. But few seem to really care about the woman’s death – not even her family. As Jago digs deeper he starts to uncover a trail of deception, betrayal, and romantic entanglements…

Reviews

Goodreads review by Toni on April 01, 2016

Book 2, in the Blitz Detective mysteries This series is set in 1940 during the London Blitz in the Essex County Borough of West Ham, one of the main targets of Hitler’s bombers and it is where Detective Inspector John Jago operates. When there is suspicion of murder, Jago’s job is to investigate and......more

Goodreads review by Cold War Conversations Podcast on April 03, 2016

Another compelling police procedural set during the London Blitz. This is the second book in the Blitz Detective Series featuring at its centre Detective Inspector John Jago as he investigates the body of a young woman found dead on a bomb site. Mike Hollow has again produced a polished and compellin......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine on September 23, 2016

As bombs fall, a killer must be found... My first taste of British fiction came in the form of fantasy from C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkein. As a teen I discovered British Mystery and Romantic Suspense with Agatha Christie and Mary Stewart. So, as a history buff and mystery fan, I became excited when I......more

The second of Hollow's books in this series I have read - with the first one being gifted to me in an ARC 2 years ago. I have had the sequels on my tbr list ever since but had yet to read them. It took me a while to get into this, because it had been 2 years since I read the previous book in the seri......more

Goodreads review by Carole on September 25, 2016

Reviewed at The Power of Words: [URL not allowed] Atmospheric … methodical ... authentic ... impressive. Although not particularly fond of WWII fiction, I’m crazy about British drama and police procedurals, so I decided to give Fifth Column a try – and am I ever glad I did! Those four adjectives......more