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Stratton's War

3.50 ( 447 Ratings by Goodreads)
Stratton's War

Stratton's War

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3.50 (447 Ratings by Goodreads)
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The start of a brilliant new series of crime novels featuring DI Ted Stratton of the CID, set in central London during World War Two and its aftermath. London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings in Fitzrovia, the coroner rules her death as suicide, but DI Ted Stratton of the CID is not convinced. Despite opposition from his superiors, he starts asking questions, and it becomes clear that Morgan's fatal fall from a high window may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters. MI5 agent Diana Calthrop, working with senior official Sir Neville Apse, is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is involved in espionage. She must tread carefully - Apse is a powerful man, and she can't risk threatening the reputation of the Secret Service. Only when Stratton's path crosses Diana's do they start to uncover the truth. But as they discover Morgan's connection with Apse and their mutual links to a criminal network and a secretive pro-fascist organisation, they begin to realise that the intrigues of the Secret Service are alarmingly similar to the machinations of war-torn London's underworld.
Prizes

Winner of CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger 2008.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780752884585
ISBN10 0752884581
Number Of Pages 464
Item Weight 299 g
Product Dimensions 128 x 32 x 194 mm
Publisher / Reseller Orion
Format paperback
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Wilson has established a reputation for stylish psychological crime; the first in her series featuring decent copper Stratton is enriched with warmth and humour as well. * GUARDIAN *
Stratton's War should certainly swell the ranks of Laura Wilson aficianados * CRIME TIME *
Totally deserving of the 2008 Crime Writers Association / Ellis Peters Historical Award, it's well researched, well written and brilliantly plotted. * SAINSBURYS MAGAZINE *
A breathtakingly good novel that weaves credible fiction onto fact, brilliantly evoking wartime London. * HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER *
Stratton's War should certainly swell the ranks of Laura Wilson aficianados * CRIME TIME *
Totally deserving of the 2008 Crime Writers Association / Ellis Peters Historical Award, it's well researched, well written and brilliantly plotted. * SAINSBURYS MAGAZINE *
Wilson has established a reputation for stylish psychological crime; the first in her series featuring decent copper Stratton is enriched with warmth and humour as well. * GUARDIAN *
A breathtakingly good novel that weaves credible fiction onto fact, brilliantly evoking wartime London.' * HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER *

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Author's Bio

Laura Wilson was brought up in London and has degrees in English Literature from Somerville College, Oxford and UCL, London. She has worked briefly and ingloriously as a teacher, and more successfully as an editor of non-fiction books. She has written history books for children and is interested in history, particularly of the recent past, painting and sculpture, uninhabited buildings, underground structures, cemeteries and time capsules.

Her first novel A LITTLE DEATH was shortlisted for both the CWA Ellis Peters and the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original. A THOUSAND LIES was shortlisted for the 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger. THE LOVER won the 2004 Prix du Polar Europeen for Best Crime Novel of the Year In Translation and was also shortlisted for the 2004 Gold Dagger and the Ellis Peters Award. In 2008, she won the Ellis Peters Award with her novel STRATTON'S WAR. She lives in Islington.

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