The Lodger Av Helen Scarlett

<p><b>This second novel from the author of <i>The Deception of Harriet Fleet</i> takes us back to the aftermath of the Great War in another haunting, atmospheric Gothic tale.<br></b><br> London in 1919 was a city of ghosts and absences, haunted by the men who marched away but never came back from ''the war to end all wars.''<br><br> Grace Armstrong believes that she has come to terms with her own loss, the death of her fianc¿the brilliant and dazzling best friend of her brother. He was declared Missing in Action during the Battle of the Somme, but he starts to reappear both in her waking life and dreams.<br><br> Grace is appalled when a body, dragged from the Thames, is identified as Elizabeth Smith, who has lodged with Grace and her family for the last eight years before suddenly disappearing.<br><br> Elizabeth had been more than a lodger; she had become a close friend to Grace, who feels compelled to find out what happened. In doing so she is drawn reluctantly into the sordid and dan