Smoke & Cracked Mirrors

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>York England: 1940</strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'An unsuitable job for a woman...'</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When her husband goes 'missing in action' Jemma James returns to the city of her birth to set up a private detective agency with her best friend Roberta 'Bobbie' Baker with whom she shares a passionate love of Golden Age crime fiction.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>These two enterprising young women soon find themselves embroiled in a series of mysterious cases shadowing blackmailers and bigamists and investigating the perplexing history of a wealthy young woman who seems determined to wipe out her past. And it's not long before they stumble across an unsolved murder.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the dead don't stay dead for long in historic York.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the 'phoney war' draws to a close and the sky above the soaring twin towers of the twelfth century Minster darkens with menace Jemma learns that even </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>she</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is not above suspicion in wartime Britain. </span></p>