China's most famous movie star goes to London for a magazine photo shoot, and ends up at a construction site with a bullet in her brain. Her manager is missing, and Scotland Yard doesn't know whether she's another victim...or a suspect. A furious Chinese ambassador demands action. Anglo-Chinese relations teeter on the edge of chaos. Inspector McLean of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case and quickly finds himself out of his depth. He brings in an expert on the Chinese criminal gangs known as triads: the vice squad's Sally Chan. Together with McLean's enthusiastic, sometimes bumbling...

Clifford Watkins found two rather unusual ways to get rich. The first was a scam involving a diamond mine that had no diamonds, the second an expose that laid bare the dirty secrets of the very industry that paid his bills. Unfortunately, while he was making a lot of money, Clifford was also making a lot of enemies. And one of those enemies wants to put him in an early grave. In "Plot Twist," the sequel to "Diamonds to Die For," Inspector McLean of Scotland Yard follows a trail that leads from Harrods in Knightsbridge to a whorehouse in Putney - via Johannesburg, Gaborone, Mumbai, Surat and...

The YouTube video made a chilling threat: "Over the next ten days I will post the profiles of five people who have escaped justice. Every one of them deserves to die. You, the people, will decide which one actually does. Read the profiles, then click Like on who you think is the worst of a bad bunch. The person who gets the most votes dies. It's that simple." As Scotland Yard's Inspector McLean and his team fight their way past the anonymity of the internet to find the would-be killer, the size and ferocity of his digital lynch mob grows exponentially. Will the detectives be able to solve the...

Detective Sally Chan is ready to head home for her first early night in six months when a stranger walks into Scotland Yard and asks for her by name. He gives her a message that makes her blood run cold, three First Class Tickets to Hong Kong, and a photo that instantly convinces her that she and her team have no choice but to get involved in the case. It's a picture of a prominent member of the Royal Family with a heroin needle sticking out of his arm. Two nights later she's having dinner with Wong Zhi, the boss of the Black Sun, Hong Kong's most powerful triad. Wong Zhi asks Sally,...