Winter 1946
One cold dark night, as a devastated London shivers through the transition to post-war life, a young nurse goes missing from the South London Hospital for Women & Children. Her body is discovered hours later behind a locked door.
Two women from the hospital join forces to investigate. Determined not to return to the futures laid out for them before the war, the unlikely sleuths must face their own demons and dilemmas as they pursue –
The Midnight Man
‘The perfect blend of a beautifully evocative atmosphere and a fiendishly clever mystery. Fabulous!’ VICTORIA DOWD
‘A mystery that evokes the period – and a recovering London – in compelling detail.’ VASEEM KHAN
‘It is great. there are so many things to admire. All pulled together with great skill. A terrific novel!’ ELIZABETH BUCHAN
First in the Clapham Trilogy of novels, all set in 1940s south London, as the capital and the country struggle in a post-war period of grief, relief and austerity. Meanwhile the building blocks for a new society – the ‘Welfare State’ – are being put in place and British life is about to change. Read more about the book and its setting on the blog.
The Midnight Man is published by Hobeck Books on 30th April 2024.
Julie Anderson 