
From time to time, while working through archives and historical records, one encounters something that does not quite sit comfortably in the narrative as it has been handed down.
Not an outright contradiction, history is rarely so obliging but a small inconsistency. A detail that has been smoothed over. A conclusion accepted perhaps a little too readily.
It is from such moments that The Willoughby Papers has grown.
I am pleased to announce the launch of this new historical mystery series, following H. A. Willoughby, an English antiquarian whose research brings him into contact with documents and discoveries that suggest the past may not always be quite as settled as it appears.
February 1944. RAF Mosquitos strike Amiens Prison in one of the most daring raids of the Second World War.
More than twenty years later, antiquarian H. A. Willoughby uncovers evidence that the raid may have concealed a far deeper secret. As forgotten documents emerge from neglected archives and wartime files resurface, he finds himself following the trail of a resistance network that official history barely remembers.
What begins as an investigation into Operation Jericho soon leads Willoughby into the shadow world of deception, espionage, and Operation Fortitude, the elaborate scheme that helped pave the way for D-Day.
Some resistance networks were not meant to survive.
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