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November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the tiny Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a stressed man. The preceding summer season have been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps at the chance to help out in the nearby city of Birmingham, where an explosion in a munitions stock has killed or badly wounded several of the young women who've considered on dangerous work to get the war work. At first, it seems more than likely the explosion was an accident, and Tom has only been called in because the causes are stretched thin. But as he talks to the employees of the stock, interior divisions - between your owner and his employees, between unionists and employees who fear communist infiltration - start to seem. Put that together with an AWOL young soldier who unwittingly sets those he loves vulnerable and a charming American documentary filmmaker who may be more than he seems, and you have a pause-register book that bears all the hallmarks of Maureen Jennings' remarkable ability: a multi-faceted puzzle, vivid personas, snappy dialogue, and a pitch-perfect sense of the time of the Blitz, when the British were pushed to their limitations and responded with a courage and resilience that still inspires.
