An edlerly American woman is brutally murdered in London. Why? Why had she chosen to stay in the slightly run down hotel next door to the palatial, yet ostentatious, mansion owned by a Russina billionaire who himself is fatally stabbed in the private garden opposite his house a day later. These are questions that left for DI Kathy Kolla to solve alone after her boss Chief Inspector Brock comes down with a severe case of the flu...but is it flu? Why are MI5 and MI6 so interested. Why are the bosses upstairs so keen to shut down the investigation? With as mny twists and turns as the London underground, this mystery will keep you guessing right o the end. Mark Rubbo, Readings