Last Rights - Barbara Nadel

OCTOBER 1940: The London borough of West Ham is suffering another night of horrific bombing and undertaker Francis Hancock is caught in the chaos. A man lurches towards him through the rubble screaming about being stabbed but there’s no visible wound and Francis dismisses him as a madman…until the man’s body turns up at his funeral parlour, two days later.

Suspecting foul play, Francis feels compelled to discover what really happened that night – but as he finds himself pitted against violent thugs, an impenetrable network of lies and his own fragile sanity, he realises that there are people who want the truth to stay dead and buried…