Deze aangrijpende serie dompelt lezers onder in het hart van Londen tijdens de donkerste dagen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Te midden van de oorlogse chaos en de meedogenloze bombardementen van de Blitz, onderzoekt een vastberaden detective ijzingwekkende moorden. Hij navigeert door een stad gehuld in duisternis en angst, en jaagt onvermoeibaar op gerechtigheid, zelfs terwijl de bommen van de vijand vallen.
On the first night of the Blitz, the body of local Justice of the Peace Charles Villiers is found in the back of a van, but a bomb destroys the evidence. As DI Jago does some investigations, it appears that many people may have wanted Villiers dead.
Among the debris of the night raid, the body of a young woman is found. She has been strangled. As D.I. Jago investigates, he discovers a web of deception, betrayal and romance.
When a pacifist is found murdered, questions are raised: why did the man have a loaded revolver? Did he have enemies? As DI Jago digs deep into the man's past, it seems like more than one person might have had a motive for murder.
During an air raid, the body of a young woman is found, strangled. DI Jago suspects that she had a secret and was mixed up in an underworld of criminal activity.