Season of Darkness

Zusatztext "Master storyteller and screenwriter Jennings . . . launches a trilogy with this superb entry. Readers will be swept away by the sagalike tone and the characters' singular problems and traits. . . . Think the British television series Foyle's War for comparison." — Library Journal (starred review)   "A fine mystery. . . . [DI Tom Tyler] has a vulnerable side that makes him a character whom readers will want to know better as this series continues." —Halifax Chronicle-Herald   "Jennings's portrait of a society under threat . . . is engrossing." — Globe and Mail   Tom Tyler . . . is just as complex and appealing as Murdoch. . . . [ Season of Darkness ] stacks up well against other fine and compelling literature set during the Second World War." —Joan Barfoot! in the London Free Press Informationen zum Autor MAUREEN JENNINGS was born in the UK and emigrated to Canada as a teenager. After a long career as a psychotherapist, she became an award-winning writer. She is the author of four series in the crime fiction genre—Christine Morris, Tom Tyler, Murdoch Mysteries, and Charlotte Frayne P.I.—as well as a book on creativity, one novella, and four plays. The Murdoch Mystery series has been adapted into the beloved television series Murdoch Mysteries shown in over 120 territories worldwide, and the Tom Tyler series served as the inspiration for the television series Bomb Girls . In 2011, Jennings was the recipient of the Grant Allen Award for her contribution to Canadian crime writing. She lives in Toronto with her husband and their dog, Murdoch. Klappentext In 1940! England is desperate and fearful. The threat of a German invasion is real! and many German Nationals are interned in camps across the country. One such is on Prees Heath! near the small town of Whitchurch in Shropshire! where Tom Tyler is the sole detective inspector. When a young women is found murdered on a desolate country road! Tyler -- who has no shortage of troubles of his own -- finds himself drawn into an uneasy alliance with one of the Prees Heath internees! a psychiatrist! who claims to be an expert on the criminal mind. Leseprobe In spite of the fact that she’d got only a few hours sleep, Elsie Bates was in great spirits. Nothing like a nice bit of dock to make a girl smile. When he’d told her this was his first time, she’d expected him to be clumsy and done too fast, but he wasn’t. She’d helped him out here and there but mostly he’d learned all by himself. Of course, like any man born to Eve, he’d started to show a bit of possessiveness right off the bat, and she’d had to make it clear that nobody owned her. Elsie grinned at the memory, then impulsively pushed down on the accelerator as far as she dared. The sun wasn’t yet up and the road, which was hemmed in on either side by tall hedgerows, was pitch black. She had her headlights on, inadequate as they were with the strips of blackout tape across them, and she was driving as close to the middle of the road as she could, the lorry rattling and shaking on the rough surface.   She started to sing to the tune of the “Colonel Bogey March.”   Hitler has only got one ball, Goering has two but they are small   Wait ’til she told Rose about last night. Rosie kept saying she was saving herself, but as Elsie reminded her, “There’s a war on, my pet. Butter’s rationed but that don’t mean we have to be.”   Himmler has something sim’lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.   Elsie fingered the strap of her dungarees and smiled at the feel of the two bank notes she’d sewn in there. Two quid would go a long way. When she’d told Rose the story, her friend had been nervous.   “Oo, Elsie, be careful. People don’t like to be blackmailed.”   “Who said anything abo...

Product details

• Authors: Maureen Jennings
• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2012
• EAN: 9780771043284
• ISBN: 978-0-7710-4328-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 202 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Tom Tyler Mystery Series; Tom Tyler Mystery Series; Tom Tyler Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense