Something of Value — James Pattinson

Enrique Olmedo, lying naked, bloody and bound in his luxurious drawing-room at Westerton Old Hall, had forty-two knife wounds in his body and only the last was lethal. But who had tortured and killed him, and why? One person who might have known was Melissa Lloyd, ex-stripper and girlfriend of Mr Olmedo, but she had vanished. Mr Sanchez, cousin of the murdered man, thought the police were dragging their feet, so he called in the Peking Inquiry Agency and Sam Grant was put on the case...