Now And Then Dead: Revised 2014 Edition

While reading a submitted manuscript - a novel of wartime London - for a publisher friend, Nick Hawthorne becomes mixed up in the death of TV personality Jack Skelton.

With his friend a suspect, Nick teams up with a beautiful detective from Scotland Yard to solve the case and the trail leads to deadly danger in the Yorkshire Dales.

Meanwhile, Shelton reads the manuscript - unfolding a tale of murder and betrayal while bombs drop on London. From a mysterious Whitehall mandarin he learns the significance of the story and its aftermath... and his life is changed for ever.