Part of Verity Kent Mysteries
First published 2017
Verity Kent thought her grief was the worst part of widowhood. Then a mysterious letter arrives claiming her beloved husband Sidney committed treason during the Great War. The anonymous sender knows impossible details, including Verity's secret wartime work for the Secret Service. Verity wants to dismiss the accusation, but the evidence feels too specific to ignore. She travels to Umbersea Island for an engagement party honoring one of Sidney's fellow officers. Among the men who fought beside her husband, she uncovers buried secrets and witnesses a murder designed to keep them hidden. Armed with only a coded message, assistance from an enigmatic stranger, and her own intelligence training, Verity must investigate a conspiracy that threatens everything she believed about her marriage. She faces a devastating choice: accept that Sidney was the man she loved, or confront the possibility that their entire relationship was built on lies.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, adult, adult-fiction, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotionally-complex, introspective, page-turning, suspenseful
Tropes: enigmatic-stranger, mystery-investigation, secrets-and-lies, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Umbersea Island
Period: Great War, World War I
304 pages · Paperback · Kensington
Content warnings: death, murder