by David Lawrence
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A macabre tableau is discovered in the living room of a Notting Hill flat. Sitting in a circle are four corpses - one of whom, Jimmy Stone, has died by having a sharp object pushed lethally between his ribs. The Notting Hill area is DS Stella Mooney's beat, and it falls to her to crack this grisly mystery. Stella is adept at moving smoothly between the extremes of Notting Hill's social panoply, from the million-pound upscale houses to the grim, drug-ridden sink estates; she is as able to deal with yuppie stockbrokers as she is with pimps and prostitutes. But her skills seem to avail her nothing in this case, for which the operative word is 'rings': from the grotesque ring of bodies to vice rings peddling girls from Eastern Europe, Internet rings specializing in memorabilia connected with brutal murders and the family circles of organized crime. If this weren't enough, there are Stella's own demons: she is waking up at three a.m. each night, sweating from the same terrifying dream. And when her private life becomes embroiled in the quest for Stone's murderer, she finds herself very close to a breakthrough - but one that may have a grim cost to her. David Lawrence rarely puts a foot wrong in this dark and atmospheric thriller: the brooding sense of death and danger ratchets the tension up progressively as Stella Mooney gets very close to the bleak solution of her case, and the set pieces are orchestrated with considerable skill. But the key appeal of the novel is the resourceful, vulnerable heroine: Stella is one of the most distinctive creations in the crime field in some time, and is the perfect fulcrum for Lawrence's gritty, unusual narrative. (Kirkus UK)
Sunday Telegraph
'An accomplished first novel. I look forward to her next case'
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A macabre tableau is discovered in the living room of a Notting Hill flat. Sitting in a circle are four corpses - one of whom, Jimmy Stone, has died by having a sharp object pushed lethally between his ribs. The Notting Hill area is DS Stella Mooney's beat, and it falls to her to crack this grisly mystery. Stella is adept at moving smoothly between the extremes of Notting Hill's social panoply, from the million-pound upscale houses to the grim, drug-ridden sink estates; she is as able to deal with yuppie stockbrokers as she is with pimps and prostitutes. But her skills seem to avail her nothing in this case, for which the operative word is 'rings': from the grotesque ring of bodies to vice rings peddling girls from Eastern Europe, Internet rings specializing in memorabilia connected with brutal murders and the family circles of organized crime. If this weren't enough, there are Stella's own demons: she is waking up at three a.m. each night, sweating from the same terrifying dream. And when her private life becomes embroiled in the quest for Stone's murderer, she finds herself very close to a breakthrough - but one that may have a grim cost to her. David Lawrence rarely puts a foot wrong in this dark and atmospheric thriller: the brooding sense of death and danger ratchets the tension up progressively as Stella Mooney gets very close to the bleak solution of her case, and the set pieces are orchestrated with considerable skill. But the key appeal of the novel is the resourceful, vulnerable heroine: Stella is one of the most distinctive creations in the crime field in some time, and is the perfect fulcrum for Lawrence's gritty, unusual narrative. (Kirkus UK)
Sunday Telegraph
'An accomplished first novel. I look forward to her next case'
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