The latest novel in Nicola Upson’s much-loved ‘Josephine Tey’ series.

Summer, 1941. As London is devastated by the Blitz, the National Gallery’s most precious paintings find a new sanctuary in the slate mines of north Wales. When a woman’s body is found amid the debris of a roof fall, Josephine Tey and Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose are plunged into a forty year-old mystery, and a death that threatens to tear apart the close-knit Welsh community.

Meanwhile, the actress Margaret Rutherford prepares to play a clairvoyant in Noel Coward’s defiant new play, Blithe Spirit. As her research unwittingly exposes a painful secret from her own past, it seems that no one is immune to messages from the dead.