DEAD ON DELIVERY an utterly gripping British crime thriller (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781804052808)

The city of London. Morning rush hour. The police pull over a motorcycle courier for a trivial offence. He doesn't stop. The police give high-speed chase.He jumps a red light and is mown down by an oncoming car. Killed on impact.Detectives Paterson and Clocks arrive at a scene of carnage. Large plastic boxes are scattered across the road. Their lids open, their contents warming up in the early morning sun. A traffic officer comforts a distraught woman driver. The courier's body lies nearby, his left leg bent at an awkward angle, his head at another: the loser of this particular meeting of metal and plastic.The detectives take a closer look at the boxes. It's one of the worst things they've ever seen. And they've seen some very bad things.This discovery leads Paterson and Clocks on their most dangerous investigation yet - and into the path of Alicia Warren, a ruthless international businesswoman who will kill to keep her profits flowing.And if that's not enough, Johnny Clocks, England's most foul-mouthed detective, is trying to keep his new wife happy while building a relationship with the 24-year-old son he never knew he had.