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This is a collection of the first three books published in the "Blind Sleuth" series in the winter of 2017-2018: "D for Daisy", "Blind Angel of Wrath" and "Daisy and Bernard". They form the original "Daisy Hayes Trilogy". Short synopsis of each part:
D for Daisy. World War II. During the attacks on Berlin in the winter of 1943-44, a Lancaster bomber landed at its base in England after an "op", and a member of the crew was found dead. His young wife soon came to the conclusion that this man had been murdered. But Daisy Hayes was blind since birth, so who was going to listen to her? In the mayhem of the bombing campaign, who even cared? That was why she needed to go out and find the murderer on her own.
Blind Angel of Wrath. Swinging London in 1967. A man approaches the now mature Daisy and makes demands she cannot ignore. He is a desperate father whose fifteen-year-old daughter-a hippie girl-has disappeared without a trace a year before. The police is powerless, or indifferent, or both. "You must help me to find her, Daisy Hayes. And you know why I'm asking you? It's because I know that you're a real killer." This is not so much a crime mystery as a thriller. And thrillers can be brutal. Be warned. On the other hand, most thrillers are also morality tales at heart, and so is this one.
Daisy and Bernard. In the summer of 1989, as the Berlin wall was coming down, Daisy Hayes, blind sleuth extraordinaire, was summoned to New Scotland Yard to testify about a baffling and gruesome murder. She knew absolutely nothing about the case, but how could she prove her innocence without revealing two other murders she actually had committed-many years ago? Then the man who started interrogating her turned out to be very much in love with the blind suspect...
Yes, a trilogy requires that you read three books in the right order. Meaning that each one of these novels has a beginning, a middle, and an end, so that you have to start all over again each time. That can't be helped, but at least the main protagonist stays the same, and in this edition the three books are published side by side for added convenience.
This trilogy as a whole is a story of crime, punishment, and redemption, with a narrative arc spanning all three story-lines neatly enough. At the same time it is a portrait of the twentieth century as witnessed by one remarkable blind woman, Daisy Hayes.
