The latest DCI Frank Merlin thriller, published May 2022. The war grinds on but now Britain faces the Nazis with America on its side.
London, 1942.
In a bombed-out London, DCI Frank Merlin’s battle against rampant crime continues – in a city teeming with spies, a mangled body is found in the Thames just as priceless art goes mysteriously missing.
Following a twisting trail of secrets, Merlin and his team must investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle.
Find out more in the fifth book in the ‘vivid and atmospheric’ Merlin wartime detective series, Dead In The Water.
Out May 19th. Available for pre-order.
"This is to my shame the first Mark Ellis book I've read. If the others evoke a vanished London so impressively, are graced with such complex plots and deep characterisation, and, above all are written so well I shall have to read them all."