Book Description

GET THE COMPLETE SERIES OF GRIPPING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT-VALUE BOX SET.**6,000 five-star reviews for the series!**Meet your new favourite detective odd veteran DCI Brian Hooley and his brilliant consultant Jonathan Roper!These FIVE relentlessly twisty cases of murder and intrigue will take you to the darkest corners of London — and test your powers of deduction to the limit . . .Solving the unsolvable is all in a day’s work for Detective Brian Hooley, of London’s Special Investigations Unit. Thankfully he has an ace up his sleeve, in the unlikely form of Jonathan Roper. Abrasive young Roper can’t find his door keys and has zero time for small talk. But Hooley can see through all that . . . to the brilliant crime-solving mind beneath. A mind that sees connections others often miss.Together, they are plunged into some of the most chilling and perplexing cases the City of London has ever seen — from a headless billionaire, found in a seedy Docklands warehouse, to a deadly gameshow, streaming live on the dark web.It will take everything Roper and Hooley have got to take their twisted adversaries off the city streets . . .Will the sum of their wits be enough?If you like Sherlock, Elementary, Monk or The Bridge, you will love Michael Leese’s unique new detective odd couple. And if you enjoy Ian Rankin, P.F. Ford, J.D. Kirk and Steve Parker, then this series is definitely for you.THE SETTINGFrom Sloane Square to the west, Streatham to the south, the Post Office Tower to the north and Canary Wharf to the east, Roper and Hooley pound pavements across every inch of London in search of wrongdoing. The City bristles with high-powered sleaze and the grimy backstreets contain criminals from every walk of life imaginable.