The Crime Writers’ Association

Historical Dagger 2021

Shortlisted


Michael Russell

The City Under Siege

Published by: Little, Brown Book Group

Inspector Gillespie of the Dublin Gardai was investigating the murder of a young gay man, a student at Maynooth, and two years later, in London during the Blitz, leads take him to Malta, in the midst of its bombardment by German and Italian planes, and then to a suburban house near Guildford.

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