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By (author) O’Malley Daniel

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Framed for murder, a former librarian must find the real killer, and discover what ties her to a mystery that began decades before

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September, 1940. Three women of the Checquy, the secretorganization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats,stand in the sky above London and see German aircraft approach.Forbidden by law to interfere, all they can do is watch as their city isbombed. Until Pamela, the most sensible of them, breaks all the rulesand brings down a Nazi bomber with her bare hands. The three resolve totell no one about it, but they soon learn that a crew member is missingfrom the downed bomber. Charred corpses are discovered in nearby housesand it becomes apparent that the women have unwittingly unleashed amonster.

Through a city torn by the Blitz, the friends musthunt the enemy before he kills again. Their task will take them from thetunnels of the Underground to the halls of power, where they willdiscover the secrets that a secret organization must keep even fromitself.

Today. Lynette Binns, a librarian with a husbandand child, is a late recruit to the Checquy, having discovered only asan adult her ability to electrify everyday objects with her touch. Aftercompleting her training, she is assigned to examine a string of brutalmurders and quickly realizes that all bear the unmistakable hallmark ofher own unique power. Unable to provide an alibi and determined to proveher innocence, she flees, venturing into the London underworld to findanswers. But now she is prey, being tracked by her own frighteninglycapable comrades.

As Lyn fights off powered thugs and her ownvengeful colleagues, she will find that the solution to the murders andto the mystery of her own past lies in the events of World War II, andthe covert actions of three young women during the Blitz.

An epic, smart and funny mystery spanning two generations, Blitz is the long-awaited third instalment in Daniel O”Malley”s acclaimed Checquy Files series, available in the UK for the first time.

Biographical note:

Daniel O”Malley graduated from Michigan State University and earned aMaster”s Degree in medieval history from Ohio State University. He thenreturned to his childhood home, Australia. His debut novel, The Rook, won the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. It is the first in his acclaimed series set in the world of the Chequy.