Eve Swift and the Cypher Sore Eyes

Book Four of this much-loved mystery series set in wartime Norwich, England.

The return of Eve Swift. Unsung wartime heroine. Homespun detective.

In the bombed-out streets of a cathedral city, a youthful crowd are eager to party. Running wild across the cobbles between dance halls and public houses, they live each moment as if it were their last. Eve Swift, our librarian in uniform, and her boyfriend, PC Harry Giles, observe the courtship rituals of American GIs and English gals with mild amusement.

In the blackout, however, things can turn on a sixpence.

Sinister slips and disturbing deaths are all too familiar in Eve Swift's world. So when the body of a drowned partygoer is fished out of the river by a reluctant Harry, Eve knows this is not a simple case of death by misadventure. This adventure, in fact, leads to Ivybank, a stately home full of secrets in the quiet, leafy suburbs.

Cyphers in chalk across the city's streets. Codebreaking for King and Country. Blackmail, crime and passion. Can Eve get to the bottom of yet another thrilling wartime mystery? With a supporting cast including the incorrigible Joan Popkin and bombastic Head Librarian Mr Bennett, Eve Swift is back on her bike. Ready for action, but not quite ready for local wideboy Albert Stanley, can Eve solve the crime that PC Giles chooses to ignore?

A hot cauldron of death and danger boils to the brim in the blackout.

Return to the cobbled streets, church spires and air raid sirens of the critically acclaimed Eve Swift Wartime Mysteries. Crikey O'Reilly, it might just be more entertaining than a night at the Regal!