Dead Ground in Between

It's late 1942; the war is still raging and Detective Inspector Tom Tyler is settling into his placement in Ludlow, Shropshire, a small town full of Italian prisoners-of-war from a nearby internment camp. Fraternizing is forbidden but, as Tyler knows only too well, the human heart has a way of crossing boundaries. Then an old man is murdered, and Tyler suspects that the two evacuee children who found the body are not telling him the truth.