When The Germans Come

Dover, 1940 and as well as awaiting the seemingly inevitable invasion by the Nazis, police inspector Louis Renard is also having to deal with murder and treachery amongst his fellow countrymen. Murky and frightening, this book will take you to the dark heart of a wartime Britain we rarely see.

— BARBARA NADEL

Canadian journalist Jessica Marshall is reporting from a town on the brink of the expected German invasion. But her story never makes it in to the paper...
Meanwhile, Louis Renard, an intelligent, damaged man and onetime Scotland Yard murder detective, is recuperating from wounds received in the Dunkirk invasion, working in Dover's barely functioning police station.

When a dancer is found murdered in a secret underground bunker, Renard refuses to turn a blind eye, and Jessica smells a scoop. As the mystery deepens, Renard begins to dig deeper into the background of the murdered woman, while Jessica Marshall is lured further into a dangerous scheme, just as the threat from the looming invasion gets closer...

Read about the background to this book.