Cold Kill

This is a refreshing police procedural with fully developed characters, a lot of action and the plot takes some shocking twists that will totally surprise the reader who will have a hard time waiting to see what happens next. Fans who appreciate a complex murder mystery will want to read David Lawrence's tense thriller.

DAVID Lawrence has a host of best-sellers to his name, and no wonder — he tells a good story, fast-paced, with lively and believable characters: Cold Kill is no exception.

Set in London, he examines modern organised crime, including its links with global terrorism, and how difficult it is for the law to keep it in check.

The line between good and evil is blurred as security agencies torture and murder to get information that might save many lives: grim and a little pessimistic, Cold Kill is nevertheless a thrilling read.

"Fans of the PBS series Prime Suspect or of hot Scottish writer Ian Rankin shouldn't wait to check out this mystery...[it] will surely be one of the best mysteries of the summer, probably of the year."
- Rocky Mountain News on The Dead Sit Round in a Ring

Cold Kill, David Lawrence's third book in the highly acclaimed Detective Stella Mooney series, finds the memorable Stella at a crime scene in a wintry London park.

The brutalized corpse of a young woman has just been discovered. When Robert Kimber walks into a Notting Hill police station and confesses to the murder, it's an open-and-shut case--just what the police want this close to Christmas. But Stella has her doubts. And if their suspect didn't commit the murder, who did? Someone show more without a conscience. Someone who will tap into Kimber's disturbed mind. Someone who needs an apprentice for the dark business he has planned.... show less