About the author
John Brannan
A four-decade journey to the page.
John first intended to write his debut novel after graduating from the University of York in 1982, inspired by the unforgettable tales his Nana told him during his childhood in Yorkshire.
Corporate life, family and everyday duties took precedence. Now retired and writing from Surrey, he has fulfilled that ambition forty years later, after honing his craft through creative writing courses with The Novelry and The History Quill.
His novels focus on historical crime, espionage and murder mystery between 1918 and 1930—an era of cultural, political and social upheaval that has fascinated him since university.
“I write the immersive, gripping fiction I always wanted to read.”
The story
Some secrets are
worth killing for.
In the later stages of the First World War, fiercely independent and unconventional Eloise Garside refuses to accept the official verdict on her father’s death—especially after most of his fortune vanishes.
Her search for the truth takes her from rural England to gangland New York and the wild west of Wyoming, where she uncovers a half-brother working for a powerful crime family and a legacy of theft and betrayal.
But it is only when Eloise returns to England that she realises her father’s death had nothing to do with his time in America, and everything to do with his covert life as a British intelligence agent.
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