Ein eindringlicher, schneller Southern Noir um einen Mann, der von Armut, Rassismus und seinem früheren Leben an die Grenzen seiner Existenz gebracht wird.
October 1942. Jo Hardy, an Air Transport Auxilliary ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she has the terrifying experience of coming under fire from the ground. In a bid to find out who was trying to take down her aircraft, she returns on foot to the area, and discovers an African American soldier bound and gagged in an old barn.
The halls are decked, the mistletoe hung, snow falling gently outside the window, and in the shadows, evil waits for darkness to fall. So draw up a chair, throw another log on the fire, and allow ten of history's greatest crime writers to surprise, delight and chill you to the bone with classic winter mysteries full of twists, turns and treachery.