When Arthur killed Elvis, he thought he'd made the biggest mistake of his career. He wasn't even close. Having picked up the wrong man at the airport, Vanessa Aldridge can't imagine what her boss will say. However, when her passenger kills two men, steals the car and abandons her in the centre of Rome dressed only in her lingerie and high heels, she reckons she might be able to take a guess. In jail and out of a job, a visit from a consular official persuades her that the worst is over; and so it is, if you don't count being kidnapped and forced to cross the Alps on horseback. And she hasn't...

Having picked up the wrong man at the airport, Vanessa Aldridge cant imagine what her boss will say. But when her passenger kills two men, steals the car and abandons her in the centre of Rome dressed only in her lingerie and high heels, she reckons she might be able to take a guess.
In jail and out of a job, a visit from a consular official persuades her that the worst is over; and so it is, if you dont count being kidnapped and forced to cross the Alps on horseback. And she hasnt even met Arthur Shepherd yet.

Arthurs a cleaner working for Lambeth Council. His chief accountabilities...

When fifteen- year-old Carly Elliot parts company with an Alp, David Benedict, the teacher in charge of the ski-party is suspended from his job pending charges of negligence and possibly even manslaughter. His only ally is journalist Rebecca Daley and even shes trying to connect him to two teenage suicides. Polizeikommissar Kurz thinks David may be a murderer, D.S. Sands thinks hes an idiot and the others down the nick reckon hes a paedophile but it wont be until he finds himself tied to a chair in a run-down church, an automatic pistol in his face and trying desperately, through broken...