Mike Hollow

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2015
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • Direct Hit

  • Fifth Column

    Detective Inspector Jago investigates, uncovering deception and betrayal

    At first glance, the young woman found in the early hours of the morning where bombs have landed is just another casualty of the previous night's air raid. But when the post-m...

  • Enemy Action

    A thirteen-year-old boy finds a man stabbed to death in a public air-raid shelter early in the morning. Detective Inspector Jago learns that he is Paul Ruckland, a school teacher with no known enemies and a pacifist--a member of the Peace Pledge U...

  • Firing Line

    Flames leap skyward from a blitzed factory in West Ham as an air raid destroys all in its path. When the blaze threatens neighbouring houses a volunteer fireman breaks in to rescue a trapped resident â€" but instead finds only the body of a young wom...

  • The Blitz Detective

    First published as Direct HitSaturday 7th September, 1940. The sun is shining, and in the midst of the good weather Londoners could be mistaken for forgetting their country was at war - until the familiar wail of the air-raid sirens heralds an enemy ...

  • The Canning Town Murder

    September, 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet just across the Channel in occupied France, Britain is full of talk about enemy agents. Suspicion is at an all time high and no one is sure who can ...

  • The Custom House Murder

    September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a month, people are calling for vengeance: Britain should retaliate even harder with their own bombing campaign in enemy territory. But once again the night...

  • The Stratford Murder

    First published as Firing Line. October, 1940. Bombs are falling on Stratford when air-raid warden Sylvia Parks sees a house with a shining light, in clear breach of the city's strict blackout rules. With no answer at the door she manages to break in...

  • The Dockland Murder

    In the depths of the blackout, the silence of London's Royal Albert Dock is broken only by the lap of inky water against the quay and the occasional scurrying of rats' feet. A patrolling policeman is passing the newly arrived freighter SS Magnolia wh...



  • The Pimlico Murder

    'Well-written excellent historical fiction' - Historical Novels ReviewArmistice Day, 1940. The nation remembers the Great War while a new and harrowing conflict rumbles on. The Blitz Detective, John Jago, must set aside his own painful memories to in...

  • The Camden Murder

    November 1940. As dawn begins to break, blackout regulations are rendered pointless by a car burning fiercely near the Regent's Canal in Camden Town, north London. In the burnt-out vehicle police find the charred remains of a body. The victim is Les ...

  • The Covent Garden Murder

    December, 1940. Christmas is coming, but the season of goodwill is overshadowed by the death and destruction of the Blitz. In London's Covent Garden, where the glamour of theatreland rubs shoulders with the bustle of the capital's biggest fruit and v...

  • The Soho Murder

    December, 1940. It is the day before New Year's Eve, but there will be no crowds celebrating on the streets of London this year. After a quiet Christmas, the city has just suffered its most devastating air raid since the opening days of the Blitz.The...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mike Hollow has published 13 books.

The next book by Mike Hollow, The Soho Murder, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Mike Hollow, Direct Hit, was published in July 2015.

No. Mike Hollow does not write books in series.
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