Johnny Under Ground

Inspector Tibbett joins his wife Emmy for the twentieth reunion of her Royal Air Force squad. It’s a bittersweet trip for Emmy: she loved her work with the RAF, and she was in love with one of the pilots, but their happiness ended abruptly when he killed himself, crashing his plane into the North Sea.

At the reunion, Emmy is surprised to realise that she may have been the last person to see her former sweetheart alive. And she’s more than startled to discover that virtually everyone connected with that fatal flight had something to hide…

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PRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR TIBBETT MYSTERIES

'One of the deftest practitioners of the British procedural detective novel' New York Times

'A queen of crime … her name can be mentioned in the same breath as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh' Daily Herald

'Gripping… very neatly worked out' Evening Standard

'Intricate plots, ingenious murders, and skillfully drawn, often hilarious, characters' Mystery Scene

'Really good detection' The Spectator

'Ingenious and elegant, with nary a trace of formula' Kirkus

'Patricia Moyes tells great tales in fascinating settings, and her Scotland Yard detective, Henry Tibbett, is perhaps the most believable of anyone detecting in this decade' Los Angeles Times

'For classic detection, [Moyes] is far and away best' Times Literary Supplement