Book description
Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel relocates to London to take on
another thrilling murder investigation.
While Geraldine strikes up a friendship with her new sergeant, the
bodies of two black girls are discovered in quick succession in North
London. Concerned about a reaction from the local black community, the
police are puzzled to learn that two teeth were extracted from both
victims after they died. One of the girls worked in a massage parlour
and suspicion falls on a client of hers, a known racist. Geraldine is
led to the upmarket shops of Bond Street in Central London. She fails
to find the killer who is out prowling the streets hunting for his
next victim. A young gay man unwittingly goes home with the killer who
also takes another girl home to his attic, where he keeps his victims
chained up while he shows them his 'collection'. With the death toll
mounting, Geraldine has no time to search for her birth mother as she
hunts for the elusive killer the papers are calling 'The Dentist'.
When she finally discovers the gruesome collection on display in his
attic, the killer knows that Geraldine must be his next victim.
Leigh Russell studied at the University of Kent gaining a
Masters degree in English and American literature. A secondary school
teacher, specialising in supporting pupils with Specific Learning
Difficulties as well as teaching English, Leigh Russell is married
with two daughters and lives in Middlesex. Her first novel, Cut Short,
was published in 2009, followed by Road Closed in 2010 and Dead End in
2011. The fourth Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel mystery will be
published as an ebook first in December 2011 with a paperback due in
May 2012.
