Direct Hit by Mike Hollow Book Review

Direct Hit

By Mike Hollow

9781782641278 | $14.99 | Paperback

Lion Fiction

About the book:

The jagged blast of high explosives rips through the evening air. In the sky over East London the searchlights criss-cross in search of the enemy.

On the first night of the Blitz, a corpse is discovered in a van in the back streets of West Ham. Detective Inspector John Jago recognizes the dead man as local Justice of the Peace Charles Villers. But then a German bomb obliterates all evidence.

Villers was not a popular man, both powerful and feared. As the sirens wail, the detective must start matching motive to opportunity--and it doesn't help when his boss foists an intrusive American journalist on him.

Jago soon discovers the dead man held many secrets, some reaching back to World War I. A lot of people wished Villers dead--and an air raid is a good time to conceal a murder.

My review;

Detective Inspector John Jago has just identified a dead man as a local Justice of the Peace. His body has been found in West Ham on one of the streets in a van.  Jago has to find the killer before something else happens. All this while it is the beginning of the Blitz and already  there are enough problems. Maybe an air raid is a perfect place to commit a murder. I really liked this storyline and I liked the characters. I give this book a 4/5. I was given this book for a review and these are all my opinions.