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Melbourne, 1919.
On the frontline is Sister Eleanor Jones. Her family torn by death and shell shock, Eleanor does what she can for the sick, among them the likeable Jimmy Cotton, in the temporary hospital hastily set up in the grand Melbourne Exhibition Building. But there is one death that she cannot prevent. A death unlike all the others on the makeshift ward. Poison. Hiding behind the gauze masks designed to stop infection, When Jimmy Cotton disappears, Eleanor cannot help getting involved in the investigation. As she studies her fellow nurses, the orderlies, and the patients, she finds that the war has left people damaged in many ways. She is not the only one with an unbearable, secret grief. The War has taken so many things from Eleanor, including her dream of becoming a writer. But perhaps she can turn her talent for the dramatic, her wit and her imagination, towards creating a trap to reveal a killer… ‘Morwood is an Australian crime writer who deserves to be better known. Her new novel is a strong contender in the historical-mystery stakes. The setting is Melbourne, just after World War 1. The epidemic of Spanish flu rages and the Exhibition Building has been turned into a hospital. The city is in lockdown, its citizens ghost-like in protective masks. Against this eerie background, Morwood fashion an evocative and intricate murder mystery. Her detective is Eleanor Jones, a young lady returned from nursing during the war. She has her personal demons but so do most of the characters. A patient dies in the convalescent ward. His symptoms are not of influenza but arsenic poisoning. Eleanor investigates and discovers a web of suspects, all with motives and opportunity. The first of a projected trilogy. More, please.’ > Download web resolution (72dpi) jpgs of the cover front and back.
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Nurses returned from the Great War are once again risking their lives,