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The Hidden Past

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Pub Date Nov 28 2026 | Archive Date Dec 3 2026


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A gripping historical fiction novel featuring Eloise Garside, a young aspiring amateur detective, who refuses to accept her father’s death, uncovering a web of secrets, betrayal, and espionage.

An Eloise Garside Novel.

In the later stages of World War I, fiercely independent and unconventional Eloise Garside refuses to accept the official verdict of her father’s death, especially after most of his fortune vanishes. Her search for the truth takes her from rural England to gangland New York and the wild west of Wyoming, where she uncovers a half-brother working for a powerful crime family and a legacy of theft and betrayal.

But it’s only when Eloise returns to England that she realises her father’s death had nothing to do with his time in America, and everything to do with his covert life as a British intelligence agent.

And some secrets are worth killing for.

A gripping historical fiction novel featuring Eloise Garside, a young aspiring amateur detective, who refuses to accept her father’s death, uncovering a web of secrets, betrayal, and espionage.

An...


A Note From the Publisher

John Brannan is a retired corporate professional. He now writes historical fiction, after completing creative writing courses with The Novelry and The History Quill. Inspired by the works of Simon Scarrow, Bernard Cornwell, C. J. Sansom, and by the stories his Nana told him while growing up in Yorkshire, John decided to write what he wanted to read, page-turning novels set between 1918 and 1930, a period he studied at university and has been fascinated by ever since.

John Brannan is a retired corporate professional. He now writes historical fiction, after completing creative writing courses with The Novelry and The History Quill. Inspired by the works of Simon...


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ISBN 9781808331206
PRICE £3.99 (GBP)
PAGES 384

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