A reasonably straightforward murder mystery set around Armistice day in 1940 in Pimlico. It's a good book for the war background. I learnt quite a lot about the area at that time and the war - it was the time of the Battle of Britain, Sir Oswald Moseley had been arrested, but still had plenty of supporters on the streets. Chamberlain had just died and there were air raids every night.

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Good story and it is worth a read.

There are currently a number of authors writing crime novels set during the Second World War, and Mike Hollow’s “Blitz Detective” series is one of the best. “The Pimlico Murder” is the sixth book in the series and sees Detective John Jago and his sidekick DC Craddock despatched to Pimlico to investigate the suspicious death of a young man found in an Anderson shelter with two white poppies in his pocket. They soon find themselves embroiled in Pimlico’s underworld, and come into conflict with Oswald Mosley’s Fascist Party.
As with the other “Blitz Detective” books, Mike Hollow captures the period perfectly. The setting is believable, the language and terminology used is pure 1940’s and the descriptions of wartime London are accurate. Hollow always includes spot-on details about the day to day issues facing Londoners at this period in history, adding a realistic dimension to his stories.
Being the sixth book in the series, there is a lot of backstory that is alluded to in the book, but it can still be enjoyed by new readers. As always with Mike Hollow, “The Pimlico Murder” is a gripping and twisty police procedural which will keep the reader guessing until the end, and the addition of the fascists adds an historically accurate and often brutal element to the story.