Hugh Mills Bücher

On his first day as a newly appointed detective sergeant with Merton CID, Sanjay Patel is asked to investigate investigation into the suspicious death of crime writer Joan Templeton. The brake lines of her car have been severed, resulting in her crashing the car.

When senior nurse, Jenny Butcher, is strangled in her flat, Detective Inspector Sanjay Patel, a British-born Indian who dropped out of medical school to join the police, is part of the team led by Chief Inspector Tracy Taylor that investigates her murder. After divorcing her husband, Jenny had moved to London to make a fresh start.