The Cambridge Siren
First published 2025 Autumn, 1941. The third year of war and still the siren sounds, driving the people of Cambridge from their beds to trudge to one of the city’s crowded bomb shelters. At dawn, the body of a young man is found in a shadowy corner. Everything points to suicide, but Detective Inspector Eden…
The Night Raids
Book 3First published 2020 A lone German bomber crosses the east coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long, hot summer of 1940. The shell falls short of its mark and lands in a neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of Cambridge. DI Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the…
The Mathematical Bridge
Book 2First published 2019 Cambridge, 1940. When an evacuee drowns in the river, his body swept away, Detective Inspector Eden Brooke sets out to investigate what seems to be a deliberate attack. The following night, a local electronics factory is attacked, and an Irish republican slogan is left at the scene. Why has Cambridge been chosen…
The Great Darkness
Book 1First published 2018 1939, Cambridge: The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout – The Great Darkness – covers southern England, enveloping the city. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. Daylight reveals a corpse on…