In Her Defence piece on the Crime Time UK site
“In Her Defence, the second of the Bunch Courtney Investigations, takes place in the early summer of 1940. Britain is reeling under the effect of the retreat at Dunkirk, internments, and concerted government campaigns to boost the war effort. Anything and anyone that is unfamiliar is viewed with deepening suspicion. Then two refugees are poisoned in apparently random events; one a stranger (who dies almost at Bunch’s feet in a local pub) and the second the father of Bunch’s old friend, Cecile. Bunch feels obliged to investigate.” Read on here