The Streets of Town

I only recently discovered this author when I read an article about him in a magazine and decided to try one of his books. Most of them are out of print but I managed to track down 'Bottled Spider', which was the first book in his Suzie Mountford series. I enjoyed that so much I searched out this, which is Book 2. It's set in London in December 1941, and Mountford has been sent to work at the West End Central police station as she and her boss try to uncover police corruption connected to organised crime. If anything this is a darker, more violent story than the first book and, in places, I found it decidedly grim. But having said that, it was an intriguing plot and the descriptions of life in wartime London were very atmospheric, so I didn't stop reading, even though there were moments I wished I could!
Review by Mo, Oundle Crime