The start of a new series from the author of }The Railway Detective{ novels. Marston takes the Home Front during the bleak days of the Great War as his setting, and there is plenty of historical colour, as well as a compelling mystery for Inspector Harvey Marmion to solve May 1915. While thousands of Britons fight in the trenches, a severely depleted police force remains behind to keep the Home Front safe. In London, the sinking of the Lusitania sparks an unprecedented wave of anti-German riots and arson attacks across the city. Among the victims is the immigrant tailor Jacob Stein, found dead in his burnt-out shop.
