alternative history

In this alternative to history series, eight years have passed since the upper-crust "Farthing Set" has overthrown Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler. As they gather for a weekend retreat, one of their own is found murdered with a yellow Star of David pinned to his chest. Whoever is behind the murder hoped that one of their number would be framed for the crime. But the principal investigator from Scotland Yard has other ideas.

In this sequel to Farthing, Inspector Carmichael has just come off the Farthing case and has been assigned to a bombing which killed leading actress Lauria Gilmore. Meanwhile Viola Lark has been chosen to act Hamlet in a gender-switching production of the play following Gilmore's untimely death and is drawn into a plot to kill Hitler at the opening night of the play, along with Prime Minister Mark Normanby, the lead figure in the increasingly fascistic government.

In this tale of alternative history, 1941 saw the European war end in the Farthing Peace, an accord reached between Britain and Nazi Germany. Flash forward to 1960 and now a global peace conference is convening in London where Britain, Germany, and Japan will oversee the final partition of the world. Amidst all this, two people of the realm will unite to oppose the fascists: a debutante and the Commander of the Watch, who oversees the British secret police.