The Bloomsbury Murder

January 1941. When Detective Inspector John Jago is called to a terraced house in London’s Bloomsbury district, he finds the body of a woman who has been attacked and left to die her crime, it seems, being kindness to strangers. Rosemary Webster had taken in victims of the devastating Blitz and refugees from wartorn Europe and given them refuge in her own home, but now she’s a victim too of cold-blooded murder. Jago is on the trail of a killer, pursuing them across Bloomsbury’s leafy squares and into the distinguished environs of University College London, uncovering a tangle of damaged hearts and minds as he goes. There may have been envy, resentment, even outright hostility. But who would want to strike down an angel of mercy in her own home?

About the author

Mike Hollow was born in West Ham and grew up in Romford, Essex. He studied Russian and French at the University of Cambridge and then worked for the BBC. In 2002 he went freelance as a copywriter, journalist and editor. Mike also works as a poet and translator.

Product details

• Authors: Mike Hollow, Hollow Mike
• Publisher: Allison & Busby
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 21.05.2026
• EAN: 9780749032104
• ISBN: 978-0-7490-3210-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Blitz Detective; Ein John Jago Krimi / Blitz Detective
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Historical crime novels; City of London, FICTION / Crime, Historical mysteries, Second World War fiction, Historical crime and mysteries