A game of spies, a brutal murder, the fate of an Empire...

Doctor Ingo Finch is back in Britain, practicing medicine and hitting the bottle. But then something happens in the North Sea: fishing ships are mysteriously attacked off Dogger Bank. Great powers are stirring and innocent lives are lost. But why is the secretive ‘Freeland Company’ paying off witnesses?

It seems far away, but when a strange man turns up on Finch's door begging for help, events soon take a life of their own, not least when the man is murdered. As navies and nations mobilise, Finch is once again drawn into the dark underworld of espionage. As war looms, and militarists and Bolshevists vie in the streets, the future of Britain herself is at stake...

A gripping and compulsive historical crime thriller, The Cold North Sea is an explosively entertaining read for fans of Abir Mukherjee, Peter May and Philip Kerr.