May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches a severely depleted police force remains behind to keep the Home Front safe. Scotland Yard is already overstretched when the sinking of the Lusitania sparks an unprecedented wave of anti-German riots and arson attacks. Among the victims is the immigrant tailor Jacob Stein found dead in his burnt-out shop. Initially Jacob’s killing appears to be the tragic excess of wartime hysteria - but when it transpires that Jacob had been stabbed his safe ransacked and his daughter Ruth raped the possibility that these assaults were long-premeditated crimes becomes unavoidable. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy must take on this case of cover-ups and contradictions and track down Jacob’s killer and Ruth’s assailants.

Part of the The Home Front Detective Series series.