FOLLOW THE SWALLOW

From the author of The Ashes of London comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII''Ten out of ten'' The Times‘A grand piece of work - a triumph and one of Taylor’s best’ MICK HERRON''A wonderfully unique novel from the master of historical crime fiction. Beautiful haunting and quite brilliant'' LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON‘As good as I’d expect from a master of the craft’ VAL MCDERMID''A wonderful subtle novel set in a strange enclosed world. Beautiful writing and a gloriously satisfying ending'' ANN CLEEVES__________England May 1945Monkshill Park School for Girls seems a world away from the violence that engulfed Europe during World War II. Yet its lonely decaying grounds have witnessed a murder.Annabel Warnock a teacher with a secretive past left for the holidays and never came back. Both teachers and girls assume she simply walked out but the truth is quite different. Her body tumbled from the Maiden’s Leap a viewpoint on the clifftop Gothic Walk and was washed out to sea.But Annabel herself is still trapped at Monkshill unable to move on. As she haunts the grounds and school she discovers a hidden world - students staff and servants are riven with deadly rivalries and dangerous tensions.And one of them is her killer…