Dead Beat

When photographer Kate O’Donnell takes off for London from swinging Liverpool she has two things in mind: to make a career and to track down her brother, who made the same trip earlier and has disappeared. But a job turns out to be easier to find than Tom, who has left behind a dead flatmate and some very suspicious cops.

When Harry Barnard of the vice squad catches up with Kate, Tom’s future looks grim. Kate’s struggle to clear her brother’s name takes her on a terrifying journey into an underworld where no one is quite what they seem. Her investigations upset powerful and violent men, and she is not even sure the charming Sergeant Barnard can be trusted…

©2011 Patricia Hall (P)2012 Soundings