This short story is a teaser for the author's new historical mystery series set in Second World War York. I must say I was a little disappointed in this. It's so short, it's really more of a vignette than a short story, introducing the two young leads Jemma and Bobbie (Roberta) finding a body of a murder victim after an initially unconvincing report by a passing motorist. The mystery is not explored here and it's over before it's really begun. I also did think that the main characters perhaps sounded a little too modern for 1939, though I'll reserve judgement for the first book in the main series, due in April. ( )