Maureen Jennings November 10, 2011

The Canadian bestseller starts a WWII Britain series with Season of Darkness (McClelland $22.95). Readers will remember her Murdoch series, Victorian, turned into Canadian TV.

The creator of the acclaimed Detective Murdoch Mysteries turns her exceptional storytelling skills to a murder mystery set in rural Shropshire, England, in the darkest days of the Second World War.

The world is at war, and Elsie Bates, a vivacious young Londoner, is now working in the fields of Shropshire as a member of the Land Army. The war has changed everyone’s lives, not least those of the civilian aliens imprisoned in a nearby prisoner of war camp. A German invasion seems imminent and everyone is on edge and, at night, literally in the dark. Then Elsie’s body is found by the side of the road, a German pistol by her side, and Detective Inspector Tom Tyler has much more to worry about than the Nazis and his son’s odd behavior since he came home from the disastrous battle at Dunkirk.

Season of Darkness starts a trilogy, welcome news to fans of British mystery! Jennings, who lives in Canada, makes a welcome return to The Poisoned Pen.

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