The author is now recognised as the UK's most successful writer of police procedurals, who was also a career police officer. Orphaned at eighteen, a naïve and solitary Chris Pritchard joins the Metropolitan Police in search of a family, friends and a regular income. The young officer is posted to the toughest of testing grounds, Stoke Newington police station in north-east London. Despite barely concealed contempt for her hapless new charge, his experienced...