Yesterday’s Sins is the third novel in the acclaimed Jimmy Costello series, by James Green.

Why would anyone put a bomb in the car of a retired US Air Force Major who writes cookery books and lives quietly with his wife in a small seaside town in Denmark? Charlie Bronski has a past and it looks like it’s catching up with him. Charlie recognises the bomb attempt as the job of a professional and he should know because it used to be his line of work before he defected. When Charlie asks for help from the people who provided him with his new life and identity they ask him a favour. It shouldn’t be too hard, just to kill a middle-aged widower who’s doing a placement prior to going to Rome to train for the Catholic priesthood. Name of Costello, Jimmy Costello. A race against time begins. Can he get Costello before somebody gets him?