London 1927. Frederick Rowlands a First World War veteran who was blinded at Ypres is working as a switchboard operator in the city when an overheard telephone conversation draws him into a murder case. From then on his safe and conventional life painstakingly reconstructed after the horrors he experienced in the trenches is shaken to its very foundation. As Fred is drawn deeper into a web of lies and half-truths he must rely on his remaining senses as well as his remarkable memory to uncover the shocking truth about the murder which threatens to undermine everything he holds dear.

Part of the Blind Detective series.