Kill Me — Bill James

"[A] terrific series. . . . Get these books; settle into peril and chaos."? Bloomsbury Review Naomi Anstruther's undercover operation among the drug gangs, planned carefully by Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, has ended in a bloody shoot-out. Naomi escapes, but both her ex-boyfriend and her current lover -- who shouldn't have been there -- are dead. Now the biggest danger to Naomi is a young woman named Esme, who believes that she and Naomi should personally avenge Donald's and Lyndon's deaths. "One of the most exquisitely sardonic stylists writing crime fiction today." -- Richard Lopez, Washington Post Book World "[A] black and zestful police series. . . . Matchless stuff by the genre's finest stylist." -- Literary Review "One of the most exquisitely sardonic stylists writing crime fiction today." -- Richard Lopez, Washington Post Book World "A tremendous writer. . . . Where else can you find a mystery series with as many layers of gorgeous stuff? " -- Chicago Tribune "Bill James's Harpur and Iles books are deliciously unsavory. -- John Harvey, "The Crime Writer's Crime Writer," The Guardian "[A] brilliantly stylish series of novels . . . . A unique author who is an acquired habit, but once discovered, impossible to kick." -- Daily Express [London], Frances Fyfield "British mystery writing's finest prose stylist. . .startling, achingly funny and sometimes wholly surreal. . . . Essential reading." -- The Observer [London], Peter Guttridge