The police procedure was also excellently done, with a detailed understanding of the issues and plausible behaviour by the officers (yes, really!

His best friend wants to get revenge and involves his ‘friend’ but with an undercover op in place who is safe on the streets.Rival London gangs and casual fatal knifings is very much a story of today, but it doesn’t mean that I want to read a fictional account of it as well as listen to it on news items. Yes, the slang, used in everyday communication between London’s youth, that was what hooked me on this book. As Sarah’s investigation threatens to jeopardise Operation Perseus and alert Shakiel Oliver to the interests of the undercover police, tensions between departments and distinct investigations threatens to muddy the waters as the competing egos of the detectives fight to prioritise their cases.

The narrative hones in on the reverberations and consequences of this murder, conveyed from the perspective of Ryan, the committed DI Sarah Collins determined to find the murderer who sees Ryan as a witness, single mother DC Lizzie Griffiths determined to prove herself who focuses on Ryan and a past assault, and the hard bitten, implacable DI Kieran Shaw, hellbent on protecting a two year undercover operation, Perseus, aimed at cutting down on the huge influx of guns and gun crime in the area.I admired her tenacity and determination to put everything on the line to prove a point, that she could do it all no matter what. On the other hand, I have very strong negative emotions about her involvement with a married man in the first place, and that is what made her and Kieran (the married detective) my least favourite characters in this book.

If you want to sit back, relax, and step away from your world these are the books to help you do that especially on a rainy day.

A game of cat and mouse with only one conclusion, someone's going to die, and someone's going to have to pay. As tenacious DI Sarah Collins struggles fo make progress in identifying the witness to Spencer’s murder or gaining an insight into his life, beleaguered DC Lizzie Griffiths is struggling to juggle single parenting with the demands of a career in the force.

Admittedly I've never been big on "drugs and gangs" kind of storylines, so this may appeal more to you if you find that kind of thing exciting. What would be the outcome for Shaw’s operation with the craziness that was happening across London, threatening everything they’d worked for? We start with a stabbing which turns out fatal and then, as more and more layers of this crime is uncovered, we see that actually, this incident is the very small tip of a very big iceberg with multiple interconnected crimes and perpetrators. Here London’s experience working with the Metropolitan Police really shines as she effectively captures the politics and the pressures around both operations which, despite everyone’s best efforts, still manage to collide. The case is complicated by the fact that it is in the middle of a two year ongoing undercover operation being run by Shaw to bust a gun trafficking deal.Whilst the subject matter and storyline failed to capture my enthusiasm I suspect others with a keener interest in gangland culture and the practicalities of policing in modern cities may well enjoy this insight. Whilst Kate London’s awareness of the underworld that she depicts is clearly evident and her knowledge of current police procedures is head and shoulders above many authors of the genre, I began to loose track of which of the police were really working to the same objectives and a united team the longer the story went on for. I just flowed with this and plan to read them so that I can understand their backgrounds as well as reading two more excellent police procedurals from Kate London. I found myself just not interested enough in the recurring characters to want to try and find out more about them. Behind the headlines of gan