Dead Alone

Dead Alone
Gay Longworth

A fresh, streetwise, frequently funny, frequently nasty, London-based crime series featuring sexy, no-nonsense female DI Jessie DriverJessie Driver is a fast-track motorbike-riding female cop with a colourful love-life, an attitude and more than a few resentful male colleagues. When one of them sends her to check out a headless skeleton washed up on the banks of the Thames, Jessie is furious. But this case is far from routine: the bones have been bleached, and floating nearby like a pair of jellyfish are the only source of identification – the victim’s silicone implants.Soon Jessie is on the trail of a vicious killer who seems to be targeting B-list celebrities – the owner of the implants is the first, but not the only, wannabe to meet a sticky end. Under a media spotlight, Jessie’s given the chance to prove once and for all that she has what it takes to handle a high-profile investigation. But when she becomes dangerously involved with a key suspect, her detached professionalism seems to fly out the window, and soon her own life could be in danger.

GAY LONGWORTH

DEAD ALONE

DEDICATION (#ulink_603b3064-0698-500f-bf14-dc661183c828)

To my motherA hard act to follow

EPIGRAPH (#ulink_8c66525b-a023-5c8e-9624-da714f8ca23f)

Everyone sees himself as a star today. This is both a cliché and a profound truth. Thousands of young men and women have the looks, the clothes, the hairstyling, the drugs, the personal magnetism, the self-confidence, and the history of conquest that proclaims a star. The one thing they lack – talent – is precisely what is most lacking in those other, nearly identical, young people whom the world has acclaimed as stars. Never in the history of show biz has the gap between amateur and professional been so small. And never in the history of the world has there been such a rage for exhibitionism. The question is, therefore, what are we going to do with all these beautiful show-offs?

Albert Goldman. Disco.

CONTENTS

Cover (#ua6c7d15a-133b-5a52-8c7a-71ca4e4a4a9c)

Title Page (#u03324b1c-f341-5e42-85ed-737426057492)

Dedication (#uc06584f3-eaaf-5634-9951-8c99d03291ad)

Epigraph (#uf7462cf6-0036-5430-a2e2-1aefd38884f2)

Prologue (#ud2a86da8-e2f8-56d3-ae2a-29d14eec32ac)

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