Russell Andrews – författare

Whenever the word Aphrodite is whispered somebody dies. The victims never know what it meant: is it a person, a product, a code word - what? And why is keeping its meaning secret, so important?Justin Westwood has retreated from reality by taking a menial post with the police department in Long Island. Mindless traffic duty and a lot of booze stop him reliving the past, but his dormant professionalism is reluctantly awakened when he realises that the death of a young journalist is deliberate, not accidental. Retracing the woman''s movements in the hours before her death, Justin learns she''s been in trouble for quoting some erroneous facts in an obituary of a man who had been living in the local old people''s home. Not the sort of mistake which normally brings a duo of professional hitmen to the door of a fallible reporter, and certainly not one which brings the FBI into town. As Justin attempts to unravel the puzzle, he finds someone is a step ahead of him, disposing of witnesses and setting him up for the rap. Realising he has to face real life at its starkest if he is to survive, he goes solo - and finds himself at the centre of one of the greatest conspiracies of his time.Praise for Russell Andrews ''A fast moving thriller in the Grisham genre'' Sunday Telegraph''I defy you to figure out who dunnit, why they dunnit, or how they dunnit'' Janet Evanovich

Police Chief Justin Westwood was content to escape his big-city past in sleepy East End Harbour. But the brutal murder of a Wall Street shark is about to change everything...While Justin is in bed with his married lover, her husband is murdered. He can provide a solid alibi for her, but his own position isn''t so clear cut - after all, it''s he who has the contacts to arrange for his rival''s removal. At least that is what his bosses think, so Justin is on his own - it''s up to him to solve the crime. A trail of dead bodies draws him back home to Providence, RI, where he must deal with the demons of his past. Here, Justin will discover a complex corporate scam with unimaginable murky depths and, at the heart of it all, a deadly individual whose greatest joy lies in human suffering and death.

When a burglary goes wrong on the opening night of his new restaurant, Jack Keller is left a widower and suffering from several bullet wounds... Suffering from emotional and physical turmoil Jack becomes a recluse, until Kid Demeter, a young man Jack once regarded as a son and who is now a formidable physiotherapist, bullies him into better health. Then Kid is found dead, but Jack cannot accept the view that his death was either accidental or suicide. Knowing he owes Kid for getting his own life back on track, Jack starts to investigate Kid''s personal life and discovers he was a serial womaniser. He begins to identify and locate these women, but every time he speaks to one of them they end up dead. Then, as he edges closer to the truth of Kid''s death, he realises that his wife''s murder was the catalyst of all that followed...Praise for Russell Andrews''With deft characterisation and pacy writing, Icarus marks Russell Andrews out as a real contender in the thriller stakes'' Irish Independent''I defy you to figure out who dunnit, why they dunnit, or how they dunnit'' Janet Evanovich