<p>Roderick Alleyn is back in this unique crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and now completed by Stella Duffy in a way that has delighted reviewers and critics alike.</p> <p> <strong>Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award 2018.</strong> </p> <p>It&#8217;s business as usual for Mr Glossop as he does his regular round delivering wages to government buildings scattered across New Zealand&#8217;s lonely Canterbury plains. But when his car breaks down he is stranded for the night at the isolated Mount Seager Hospital with the telephone lines down a storm on its way and the nearby river about to burst its banks.</p> <p>Trapped with him at Mount Seager are a group of quarantined soldiers with a serious case of cabin fever three young employees embroiled in a tense love triangle a dying elderly man an elusive patient whose origins remain a mystery &#8230; and a potential killer.</p> <p>When the payroll disappears from a locked safe and the hospital&#8217;s death toll starts to rise faster than normal can the appearance of an English detective working in counterespionage be just a lucky coincidence &#8211; or is something more sinister afoot?</p>