Death in a Blackout

After a tragedy at home, Billie Harkness finds herself needing a new start, so she accepts an invitation from a distant cousin to visit the northern coastal town of Hull. She arrives just before Hull experiences its first air raid in 1940. In the devastation that follows, Billie finds a dead young w......more

This was an interesting start to a new series. Wilhelmina ( Billie) was a brave, resourceful and determined character. She was well suited to her job as one of the first women police constables. Peter Harkness also worked as a special police constable and their first meeting was contentious to say t......more

‘Death In A Blackout’ by Jessica Ellicott is the story of Billie Harkness, a vicar’s daughter from the quiet and sleepy village of Barton St. Giles, who finds herself catapulted into the middle of a murder mystery during World War Two. When tragedy strikes in her own life, Billie flees north to Hull......more

Wilhelmina Harkness is the 22-year-old daughter of a rector in a small town in Wiltshire, England. It is 1940 and her chaplain father is a POW and her brother Frederick is missing in Europe. At the invitation of a cousin she has not met she moves to the port city of Hull in Yorkshire. Her cousin Lil......more