South Bank Blue — Roger Busby

When down on his luck used car salesman Charlie Gittings takes a lady for a test drive he's swept away for a roller coaster crime ride through the streets of South London.

Then there's old time Met detective Mitch Morgan hunting the brutal killer of a girl washed up from the Thames in a case dubbed by the media “the mermaid murder.”

Down river, a veteran robber is tooling up for one last spetacular job.

And deeper into the badlands, an inmate is on the run from Belmarsh high security prison, bent on revenge.

As their paths cross, shocking secrets from the past come back to haunt them. And suddenly the Southbank explodes in a whirlwind of treachery, murder and mayhem. It's time for The Reckoning!!

Award winning crime writer Roger Busby, best known for his drugs war trilogy The Hunter, Snowman and Crackshot, is back on the beat with a sizzling cops and robbers thriller.

His policemen are as real as your next door neighbours,” H R F Keating, The Times