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Barely half of the Bomber Command's aircrews survive a full tour, but wireless operator Billy Angell has beaten the odds and completed his 30th - and final - mission. Now, Billy is due two-weeks leave, a posting to a training squadron and a six-month exemption from active duty. Except that MI5 need an airman to drop into Nazi-occupied France. MI5 are interested in Hélène Lafosse, a Frenchwoman keeping unusual company in her small family château in the depths of the Touraine.

In 1796, the men at Fort Kenay or Russian Redoubt Saint Nicholas are terrified. A ghost, a woman in a tattered white dress, screams nightly along the banks of the Kenai River below the bluffs where the fort stands. Young Nicholas arrives with Captain Zaikov on his fur trading ship from Russia at the fort. Nicholas is sent by powerful people in Russia to accomplish a task, yet no one knows anything about him. An Orthodox priest is among the arrivals in search of a missing missionary.

Sulle montagne della Val d’Intelvi, tra il lago di Como e il confine svizzero, durante i lavori di costruzione di un nuovo valico vengono alla luce dei resti umani: le ossa appartengono a un ufficiale tedesco ucciso nella primavera del 1945. Come è finito lì? Quale misteriosa identità si nasconde dietro la sigla K.D. ritrovata sul portasigarette d’argento? Chi l’ha giustiziato e perché? L’indagine è affidata al commissario Stefania Valenti, che insieme alla squadra formata dal sardo Piras e dal toscano Lucchesi si mette sulle piste della potente famiglia Cappelletti-Durand.