BOOK 2 OF THE TOWER - NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA'Sensational... A brilliant, high-octane crime novel' Tony ParsonsOctober 1987: the morning after the Great Storm. Fifteen-year-old Tania Mills walks out her front door and disappears. Twenty-seven years later her mother still prays for her return. DS Sarah Collins in the Met's Homicide Command is determined to find out what happened, but is soon pulled into a shocking new case and must once again work with a troubled young police officer from her past, Lizzie Griffiths.PC Lizzie Griffiths, now a trainee detective, is working in the Domestic Violence Unit, known by cops as the 'murder prevention squad'. Called to an incident of domestic violence, she encounters a vicious, volatile man - and a woman too frightened to ask for help. Soon Lizzie finds herself drawn into the centre of the investigation as she fights to protect a mother and daughter in peril.As both cases unfold, Sarah and Lizzie must survive the dangerous territory where love and violence meet.

BOOK 3 OF THE TOWER - NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA'Utterly authentic' Daily MailDetective Inspector Kieran Shaw is not interested in the infantry. He likes the proper criminals, the ones who can plan things. As head of Operation Perseus - a covert police investigation into a powerful criminal network - Shaw is about to make the arrests of his career. But then the brutal murder of a teenager sends a shockwave through the very organization he has been targeting, threatening not only Shaw's case, but everyone with a connection to the boy who was killed on Gallowstree Lane...'An authentic depiction of gang life and police politics with first class writing.' Sunday Express

From the author of ITV's THE TOWER'Rips along like a rattlesnake. Absorbing. Relevant. Tense.' Imran MahmoodThere's more than one way to go missing...When Ryan Kennedy is imprisoned after killing a police officer, he knows what he has to do. Keep his mouth shut about who he was working for, keep his head down, and rely on his youth to keep his sentence short. When he gets out, he'll be looked after.Following the death in the line of duty of a fellow detective, DI Sarah Collins has left the capital for a quieter life in the countryside. But when a missing teenager turns up on her patch, she finds herself drawn into a much bigger investigation - one that leads her right back to London, back to the Met, and back to Ryan Kennedy, the kid who killed a cop.This powerful novel from a former Met detective explores the devastation that organized drug-running gangs can wreak on young lives. It asks who deserves to be saved - and whether saving them is even possible...

From the author of ITV's THE TOWER'Rips along like a rattlesnake. Absorbing. Relevant. Tense.' Imran MahmoodThere's more than one way to go missing...When Ryan Kennedy is imprisoned after killing a police officer, he knows what he has to do. Keep his mouth shut about who he was working for, keep his head down, and rely on his youth to keep his sentence short. When he gets out, he'll be looked after.Following the death in the line of duty of a fellow detective, DI Sarah Collins has left the capital for a quieter life in the countryside. But when a missing teenager turns up on her patch, she finds herself drawn into a much bigger investigation - one that leads her right back to London, back to the Met, and back to Ryan Kennedy, the kid who killed a cop.This powerful novel from a former Met detective explores the devastation that organized drug-running gangs can wreak on young lives. It asks who deserves to be saved - and whether saving them is even possible...

The Tower, previously published as Post Mortem, is now a major ITV drama. 'Draws you in and doesn't let you go. A must read.' Rosamund LuptonShe could not escape the horror of it: falling unstoppably, irretrievably until the hard concrete reaches up. That last glimpse of them at the edge.A long-serving beat cop in the Met and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in London's East End. Left alive on the roof are a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer, Lizzie Griffiths.Within hours, Griffiths has disappeared, and DS Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth around the grisly deaths, in an investigation which takes her into the dark heart of policing in London.'Absorbing' Sunday TImes'Thrilling' Weekend Sport'Thought-provoking' Literary Review

'Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing’ Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and BoyChange will divide a country. Murder will destroy a family.1959. A group of boys from the mining village of Murton run out to play together. When a tragedy occurs, it changes the lives of these boys and everyone around them forever, sending shockwaves that reverberate through their lives.1984. Detective Constable Ian Weldon has been running away from himself since he was a boy. He worked in Merseyside covering serious crime, but now lives in a remote police house working as a local cop. His brother, Stephen, is on the front lines of the miners' strike in Stoke.The force is already stretched to breaking point when Ian is called in to investigate the brutal murder of a childhood friend. The case brings Ian face-to-face with his past, his family, and with the life he left behind. As tensions erupt and tempers fray, the community fractures. When Stephen's son Christopher goes missing, it becomes a race against time to solve the case. Ian and his family must fight for the answers they need and the future they want, before it’s too late.

Una novela de éxito adaptada a serie de televisión.La detective Sarah Collins y su compañero Steve Bradshaw llegaron a los pocos minutos, pero ya era tarde. Sobre el asfalto yacían muertos el veterano policía y una joven inmigrante. Segundos antes habían caído de lo alto de ese edificio, donde todavía estaba Lizzie, la agente de policía aún en período de entrenamiento, y el pequeño Ben, a quien milagrosamente ella había salvado. Fue en el caos de esos minutos: la intervención de la policía municipal, los sanitarios, la llegada de los periodistas, que Lizzie escapó. Era la principal testigo.   Sarah Collins está decidida a desentrañar las causas de la tragedia, con una obsesión más fuerte que las miradas críticas de sus propios compañeros y su jefe. El caso en el que trabajaba el veterano policía, el sospechoso arresto del padre de la chica muerta, una grabación inconveniente de su teléfono móvil, una relación amorosa contra todas las reglas de la policía… los hechos se van entrelazando, y contra viento y marea, ella avanza, aunque su propio destino en el departamento de policía esté en juego.   Nadie como Kate London podía escribir una novela policíaca tan real, cruda y emocionante, porque ella misma trabajó durante años como policía en Londres. Los desayunos de madrugada al final del turno, la complicidad en el uso de la sirena para llegar cuanto antes a su casa, los secretos guardados en las taquillas... y las turbias lealtades.

SEGUNDO LIBRO DE LA SERIE LA TORRE, ahora una exitosa de serie de TVOctubre de 1987: Por la mañana, tras la gran tormenta de Londres, Tania Mills, de quince años, sale por la puerta de su casa y desaparece. Más de veinte años después, su madre todavía espera su regreso. La inspectora Sarah Collins, del departamento de Homicidios de la policía de Londres, está decidida a averiguar qué sucedió, pero su investigación se ve interrumpida por otro terrible caso que la obliga a colaborar con una joven y problemática agente de policía de su pasado, Lizzie Griffiths.Veinte años después: La agente Lizzie Griffiths, ahora detective en pleno ascenso de su carrera, está trabajando en la Unidad de violencia doméstica de su propia comisaría. Debe acudir a una llamada por un incidente de agresión a una mujer; allí encuentra a un hombre violento y explosivo, y a una joven demasiado asustada para pedir ayuda. Lizzie se ve atrapada en una arriesgada investigación, mientras lucha para proteger a esa madre y a su pequeña hija en peligro.A medida que los dos casos avanzan con giros de la trama absolutamente sorprendentes, Sarah y Lizzie deben sobrevivir en una escalofriante encrucijada donde el amor y la muerte son las dos caras de una misma moneda.

Una novela de éxito convertida en la excelente serie de televisión "La Torre".   Un joven adolescente es brutalmente asesinado en una oscura calle de Londres y el único testigo del crimen huye de la escena. La inspectora Sarah Collins es la encargada de llevar a cabo la investigación.Pero su investigación amenaza el trabajo policial que el detective Kieran Shaw está poniendo en marcha para desmantelar una peligrosa banda criminal y no lo puede permitir. La agente Lizzie Griffiths forma parte de esta operación encubierta mientras enfrenta el desafío de ser madre soltera y de reencontrarse con Shaw. Todo es demasiado para ella, su vida ha llegado a una encrucijada en la que debe decidir entre su carrera y su maternidad.Sarah y Lizzie son dos mujeres muy diferentes en un mundo de hombres. Luchan por el mismo ideal mientras lidian con la política interna de la policía. Las dos saben que deben encontrar al asesino sin poner en riesgo la Operación Perseo.

BOOK 2 OF THE TOWER - NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA'Sensational... A brilliant, high-octane crime novel' Tony ParsonsOctober 1987: the morning after the Great Storm. Fifteen-year-old Tania Mills walks out her front door and disappears. Twenty-seven years later her mother still prays for her return. DS Sarah Collins in the Met's Homicide Command is determined to find out what happened, but is soon pulled into a shocking new case and must once again work with a troubled young police officer from her past, Lizzie Griffiths.PC Lizzie Griffiths, now a trainee detective, is working in the Domestic Violence Unit, known by cops as the 'murder prevention squad'. Called to an incident of domestic violence, she encounters a vicious, volatile man - and a woman too frightened to ask for help. Soon Lizzie finds herself drawn into the centre of the investigation as she fights to protect a mother and daughter in peril.As both cases unfold, Sarah and Lizzie must survive the dangerous territory where love and violence meet.

BOOK 3 OF THE TOWER - NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA'Utterly authentic' Daily MailDetective Inspector Kieran Shaw is not interested in the infantry. He likes the proper criminals, the ones who can plan things. As head of Operation Perseus - a covert police investigation into a powerful criminal network - Shaw is about to make the arrests of his career. But then the brutal murder of a teenager sends a shockwave through the very organization he has been targeting, threatening not only Shaw's case, but everyone with a connection to the boy who was killed on Gallowstree Lane...'An authentic depiction of gang life and police politics with first class writing.' Sunday Express

From the author of ITV's THE TOWER'Rips along like a rattlesnake. Absorbing. Relevant. Tense.' Imran MahmoodThere's more than one way to go missing...When Ryan Kennedy is imprisoned after killing a police officer, he knows what he has to do. Keep his mouth shut about who he was working for, keep his head down, and rely on his youth to keep his sentence short. When he gets out, he'll be looked after.Following the death in the line of duty of a fellow detective, DI Sarah Collins has left the capital for a quieter life in the countryside. But when a missing teenager turns up on her patch, she finds herself drawn into a much bigger investigation - one that leads her right back to London, back to the Met, and back to Ryan Kennedy, the kid who killed a cop.This powerful novel from a former Met detective explores the devastation that organized drug-running gangs can wreak on young lives. It asks who deserves to be saved - and whether saving them is even possible...

From the author of ITV's THE TOWER'Rips along like a rattlesnake. Absorbing. Relevant. Tense.' Imran MahmoodThere's more than one way to go missing...When Ryan Kennedy is imprisoned after killing a police officer, he knows what he has to do. Keep his mouth shut about who he was working for, keep his head down, and rely on his youth to keep his sentence short. When he gets out, he'll be looked after.Following the death in the line of duty of a fellow detective, DI Sarah Collins has left the capital for a quieter life in the countryside. But when a missing teenager turns up on her patch, she finds herself drawn into a much bigger investigation - one that leads her right back to London, back to the Met, and back to Ryan Kennedy, the kid who killed a cop.This powerful novel from a former Met detective explores the devastation that organized drug-running gangs can wreak on young lives. It asks who deserves to be saved - and whether saving them is even possible...

The Tower, previously published as Post Mortem, is now a major ITV drama. 'Draws you in and doesn't let you go. A must read.' Rosamund LuptonShe could not escape the horror of it: falling unstoppably, irretrievably until the hard concrete reaches up. That last glimpse of them at the edge.A long-serving beat cop in the Met and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in London's East End. Left alive on the roof are a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer, Lizzie Griffiths.Within hours, Griffiths has disappeared, and DS Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth around the grisly deaths, in an investigation which takes her into the dark heart of policing in London.'Absorbing' Sunday TImes'Thrilling' Weekend Sport'Thought-provoking' Literary Review

'Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing’ Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and BoyChange will divide a country. Murder will destroy a family.1959. A group of boys from the mining village of Murton run out to play together. When a tragedy occurs, it changes the lives of these boys and everyone around them forever, sending shockwaves that reverberate through their lives.1984. Detective Constable Ian Weldon has been running away from himself since he was a boy. He worked in Merseyside covering serious crime, but now lives in a remote police house working as a local cop. His brother, Stephen, is on the front lines of the miners' strike in Stoke.The force is already stretched to breaking point when Ian is called in to investigate the brutal murder of a childhood friend. The case brings Ian face-to-face with his past, his family, and with the life he left behind. As tensions erupt and tempers fray, the community fractures. When Stephen's son Christopher goes missing, it becomes a race against time to solve the case. Ian and his family must fight for the answers they need and the future they want, before it’s too late.

Una novela de éxito adaptada a serie de televisión.La detective Sarah Collins y su compañero Steve Bradshaw llegaron a los pocos minutos, pero ya era tarde. Sobre el asfalto yacían muertos el veterano policía y una joven inmigrante. Segundos antes habían caído de lo alto de ese edificio, donde todavía estaba Lizzie, la agente de policía aún en período de entrenamiento, y el pequeño Ben, a quien milagrosamente ella había salvado. Fue en el caos de esos minutos: la intervención de la policía municipal, los sanitarios, la llegada de los periodistas, que Lizzie escapó. Era la principal testigo.   Sarah Collins está decidida a desentrañar las causas de la tragedia, con una obsesión más fuerte que las miradas críticas de sus propios compañeros y su jefe. El caso en el que trabajaba el veterano policía, el sospechoso arresto del padre de la chica muerta, una grabación inconveniente de su teléfono móvil, una relación amorosa contra todas las reglas de la policía… los hechos se van entrelazando, y contra viento y marea, ella avanza, aunque su propio destino en el departamento de policía esté en juego.   Nadie como Kate London podía escribir una novela policíaca tan real, cruda y emocionante, porque ella misma trabajó durante años como policía en Londres. Los desayunos de madrugada al final del turno, la complicidad en el uso de la sirena para llegar cuanto antes a su casa, los secretos guardados en las taquillas... y las turbias lealtades.

SEGUNDO LIBRO DE LA SERIE LA TORRE, ahora una exitosa de serie de TVOctubre de 1987: Por la mañana, tras la gran tormenta de Londres, Tania Mills, de quince años, sale por la puerta de su casa y desaparece. Más de veinte años después, su madre todavía espera su regreso. La inspectora Sarah Collins, del departamento de Homicidios de la policía de Londres, está decidida a averiguar qué sucedió, pero su investigación se ve interrumpida por otro terrible caso que la obliga a colaborar con una joven y problemática agente de policía de su pasado, Lizzie Griffiths.Veinte años después: La agente Lizzie Griffiths, ahora detective en pleno ascenso de su carrera, está trabajando en la Unidad de violencia doméstica de su propia comisaría. Debe acudir a una llamada por un incidente de agresión a una mujer; allí encuentra a un hombre violento y explosivo, y a una joven demasiado asustada para pedir ayuda. Lizzie se ve atrapada en una arriesgada investigación, mientras lucha para proteger a esa madre y a su pequeña hija en peligro.A medida que los dos casos avanzan con giros de la trama absolutamente sorprendentes, Sarah y Lizzie deben sobrevivir en una escalofriante encrucijada donde el amor y la muerte son las dos caras de una misma moneda.

Una novela de éxito convertida en la excelente serie de televisión "La Torre".   Un joven adolescente es brutalmente asesinado en una oscura calle de Londres y el único testigo del crimen huye de la escena. La inspectora Sarah Collins es la encargada de llevar a cabo la investigación.Pero su investigación amenaza el trabajo policial que el detective Kieran Shaw está poniendo en marcha para desmantelar una peligrosa banda criminal y no lo puede permitir. La agente Lizzie Griffiths forma parte de esta operación encubierta mientras enfrenta el desafío de ser madre soltera y de reencontrarse con Shaw. Todo es demasiado para ella, su vida ha llegado a una encrucijada en la que debe decidir entre su carrera y su maternidad.Sarah y Lizzie son dos mujeres muy diferentes en un mundo de hombres. Luchan por el mismo ideal mientras lidian con la política interna de la policía. Las dos saben que deben encontrar al asesino sin poner en riesgo la Operación Perseo.