"This is a new idea in detective fiction"
- HRF Keating

Whilst reading a submission- a story of wartime London- for a publisher friend, Nick Hawthorne becomes mixed up in the death of Jack Skelton, TV personality. With his friend a suspect, Nick teams up with a beautiful detective from Scotland Yard to solve the case and the trail leads to deadly danger in the Yorkshire Dales.

Meanwhile he reads the manuscript, unfolding a tale of murder and betrayal while bombs drop on London. From a mysterious Whitehall mandarin he learns the significance of the story and its aftermath…and his life is changed forever.

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Now and Then Dead book cover -  Philip Grant