CRIME FICTION

The City Under Siege

by Michael Russell (Constable)

The third in the Stefan Gillespie series has the redoubtable Detective Inspector investigating a series of murders in Britain and Ireland in the war-torn days of 1941. In a yarn that shifts between Dublin and London, DI Gillespie gets entangled in a murder mystery that begins with the killing of a gay man in Soho. It turns out that the brutal slaying is just one of a series on both sides of the Irish Sea. Is the killer a British soldier? What is Scotland Yard hiding? And does the answer to these grisly crimes lie in the besieged city of Valetta?