An excellent choice for readers who love a story of murder, secrets and lies. Air Raid is set in Sussex in 1952 in a Britain where rationing persists, war bomb damage is still visible and times are changing. A solicitor has been murdered in his office while he was looking into a case for a local aristocratic family. The Earl of Southwold is dying, which he soon does, and his daughter Lady Sylvia, his heir, claims that she married an American officer, who was killed after the Normandy invasion, and that she had a daughter.
The nursing home was bombed and most babies died, but she says her child was taken by a local village woman to America, having married an American serviceman. Her supposed American parents-in-law are wealthy, can find the little girl and obtain and return her and will undoubtedly prove very generous. The junior solicitor in the practice, Toby Wright, takes over the case to search for legal evidence. Is Lady Sylvia’s story true or is there a devious plot with more behind it to secure money for the future? Who is the mother of the little girl and who was her father?
With events in the present and flashbacks to events in the war, some local villagers clearly know certain things. A member of staff at the nursing home comes forward and is then murdered and an old gardener of the estate is attacked.
Secrets and lies are exposed as events progress to a thrilling and dramatic end. A page turner and to which I award 5 stars.
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