# Death of an Officer by Mark Ellis (Paperback)

**London. Spring 1943.** While Europe continues to suffer under the iron fist of Nazi occupation, Britain remains battered but unbowed.  
  
DCI Frank Merlin, already contending with a booming wartime crime wave in the capital, is confronted with a baffling case: the brutal murder of a respected doctor.  
  
Following a puzzling trail that leads him into the hidden corners of clubland - and which appears to be linked to the disappearance of both British and American officers - Merlin must untangle a dark web of shocking secrets.  
  
'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.**'****_THE TIMES_**  
  
'An atmospheric, compelling evocation of war-torn London in the wake of the Blitz, where DCI Frank Merlin fights against a tidal wave of crime' **GEOFFREY WANSELL, Crime and Thriller Reviewer, DAILY MAIL**  
  
'Unputdownable' **ROBERT LYMAN**  
  
'Mark Ellis delivers diamonds - an intriguing, masterly juggling of an intricate plot and an enviable command of detail**.' JOHN LAWTON**  
  
'Extraordinarily atmospheric and compelling, DEAD IN THE WATER is a wonderfully intelligent and complex story' **CHRIS LLOYD, HWA Gold Crown Award winner.**  
  
'...historical noir at its best. Mark Ellis's talents as a writer are many; finely embroidered plotting, a meticulously researched historical context and place, and rounded characters whose lives and capers become real for a reader' **GARY DONNELLY  
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'A very satisfying puzzle, expertly crafted' _**HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY**_  
  
Praise for the DCI Frank Merlin series:  
  
**'Masterly . . . compelling . . . one of the most attractive characters to emerge in recent detective-thriller fiction'** ANDREW ROBERTS, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR  
  
**'Against the backdrop of Blitz-hit London, this stylish thriller sees Scotland Yard's Frank Merlin investigate a tangled conspiracy'**_SUNDAY MIRROR_

## Details

- **Price:** 11.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Accent Press Limited
- **Tags:** All Books, Thrillers

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