The Unquiet Dead

The Unquiet Dead

Gay Longworth

Gay Longworth

Jessie Driver returns in the second of this fresh, streetwise London-based series from 'the new Mistress of Thrillers' Sunday Express The decaying Marshall Street Baths in the heart of Soho are a den for drug-users and the homeless -- the perfect hang-out for a teenage runaway. But when DI Jessie Driver goes there in search of a missing girl, she finds something quite different: the mummified body of a man, buried in the rat-infested basement. Who was he? And how does this murder relate to the tragic drowning of a young boy years earlier? Jessie's investigation takes her on a journey through the past -- the kidnapping of a little girl; the descent into madness of a bereaved father -- but the dangers she'll face are very much in the present.
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Dead Alone

Dead Alone

Gay Longworth

Gay Longworth

A fresh, streetwise, frequently funny, frequently nasty, London-based crime series featuring sexy, no-nonsense female DI Jessie Driver Jessie Driver is a fast-track motorbike-riding female cop with a colourful love-life, an attitude and more than a few resentful male colleagues. When one of them sends her to check out a headless skeleton washed up on the banks of the Thames, Jessie is furious. But this case is far from routine: the bones have been bleached, and floating nearby like a pair of jellyfish are the only source of identification -- the victim's silicone implants. Soon Jessie is on the trail of a vicious killer who seems to be targeting B-list celebrities -- the owner of the implants is the first, but not the only, wannabe to meet a sticky end. Under a media spotlight, Jessie's given the chance to prove once and for all that she has what it takes to handle a high-profile investigation. But when she becomes dangerously involved...
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