Deze meeslepende detectiveserie neemt u mee naar de donkere dagen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Volg de ervaren Detective Inspector Tom Tyler terwijl hij zich een weg baant door een gevaarlijke wereld van spionage, verraad en moord. Elk geval stort hem dieper in het oorlogsgeweld, waar hij de waarheid moet ontdekken te midden van bedrog en misleiding. De serie biedt een boeiende historische achtergrond en spannende plots die u op het puntje van uw stoel zullen houden.
In 1940, England is desperate and fearful. The threat of a German invasion is real. When a young woman is found murdered on a desolate country road, Tom Tyler, a detective inspector, finds himself drawn into an uneasy alliance with one of the Prees Heath internees, a psychiatrist, who is an expert on the criminal mind.
November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector is asked to help out in an inquiry into an explosion in a munitions factory that has killed several of the young women. At first, it seems more than likely the explosion was an accident, but as Tom talks to the employees of the factory, the cracks begin to appear.
Di Tom Tyler has made a new start in Ludlow, where on the outskirts of town stands a hospital for war victims. When a double murder is discovered in the grounds, Tyler must figure out how it could have occurred, when most of the patients are unable to walk or see. Then he starts receiving letters recounting terrible crimes.
It's late 1942; the war is still raging and DI Tom Tyler is settling into his placement in Ludlow, Shropshire, a small town full of Italian PoWs from a nearby internment camp, brought to work the land. Fraternizing is forbidden but, as Tyler knows only too well, the human heart has a way of crossing boundaries. Then a old man is found murdered, and Tyler suspects that the two evacuee children who found the body are not telling him the whole truth...