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Dead Alone
Gay Longworth
A fresh, streetwise, frequently funny, frequently nasty, London-based crime series featuring sexy, no-nonsense female DI Jessie DriverJessie Driver is a fast-track motorbike-riding female cop with a colourful love-life, an attitude and more than a few resentful male colleagues. When one of them sends her to check out a headless skeleton washed up on the banks of the Thames, Jessie is furious. But this case is far from routine: the bones have been bleached, and floating nearby like a pair of jellyfish are the only source of identification – the victim’s silicone implants.Soon Jessie is on the trail of a vicious killer who seems to be targeting B-list celebrities – the owner of the implants is the first, but not the only, wannabe to meet a sticky end. Under a media spotlight, Jessie’s given the chance to prove once and for all that she has what it takes to handle a high-profile investigation. But when she becomes dangerously involved with a key suspect, her detached professionalism seems to fly out the window, and soon her own life could be in danger.
GAY LONGWORTH
DEAD ALONE
DEDICATION (#ulink_603b3064-0698-500f-bf14-dc661183c828)
To my motherA hard act to follow
EPIGRAPH (#ulink_8c66525b-a023-5c8e-9624-da714f8ca23f)
Everyone sees himself as a star today. This is both a cliché and a profound truth. Thousands of young men and women have the looks, the clothes, the hairstyling, the drugs, the personal magnetism, the self-confidence, and the history of conquest that proclaims a star. The one thing they lack – talent – is precisely what is most lacking in those other, nearly identical, young people whom the world has acclaimed as stars. Never in the history of show biz has the gap between amateur and professional been so small. And never in the history of the world has there been such a rage for exhibitionism. The question is, therefore, what are we going to do with all these beautiful show-offs?
Albert Goldman. Disco.
CONTENTS
Cover (#ua6c7d15a-133b-5a52-8c7a-71ca4e4a4a9c)
Title Page (#u03324b1c-f341-5e42-85ed-737426057492)
Dedication (#uc06584f3-eaaf-5634-9951-8c99d03291ad)
Epigraph (#uf7462cf6-0036-5430-a2e2-1aefd38884f2)
Prologue (#ud2a86da8-e2f8-56d3-ae2a-29d14eec32ac)
Chapter 1 (#ub5c6986f-fefe-568b-8f70-0a9c1aaff094)
Chapter 2 (#u82459f9a-f042-5e11-aefa-cdc6c8331c7e)
Chapter 3 (#uedd354e6-e2fe-5ba4-bb11-b821ffe9ecf6)
Chapter 4 (#u49d18464-ad54-5382-86b3-34f089737455)
Chapter 5 (#uf6042a84-17c6-5266-a3d7-0dafdfafe12b)
Chapter 6 (#u6961d799-075e-5717-b8e4-4c178f240be9)
Chapter 7 (#u8130a7ef-a859-5920-be1d-bb41d705ab6e)
Chapter 8 (#u5fb29fa7-733a-58a9-b152-1332050660c1)
Chapter 9 (#u663d6684-e34c-56ec-9ed8-456e44b97b2e)
Chapter 10 (#u4d52d805-050b-5eee-a6b6-487d07aae5e5)
Chapter 11 (#u69d5a7b0-f9c6-503f-b4fa-bea4f9669b13)
Chapter 12 (#u55d56bbc-4f22-56e2-b24f-93cb2efdf020)
Chapter 13 (#u7a2ce5f7-3e38-5bab-9cc4-78473a13ab16)
Chapter 14 (#uc82d3454-9ecb-587d-a6f7-3708f9aa8343)
Chapter 15 (#u0d25e0e0-f259-545e-a53b-09d092f50cfc)
Chapter 16 (#u52751064-4f18-53cf-88ca-e886b8cbf42b)
Chapter 17 (#uea5f2606-24f2-5c24-ab78-b96a0bfb34d7)
Chapter 18 (#u2b6e6074-6f29-504d-9751-17ab6e0f08f8)
Chapter 19 (#u6b912e97-094e-5d49-b5e3-1325a29749df)
Chapter 20 (#uf4d2ac1c-5536-5213-9d24-4ae1e3a2bb65)
Chapter 21 (#uc102b688-52d7-5925-9e89-1374a3a18e7c)
Chapter 22 (#ub6bc2111-a607-5968-a7a4-b0b397713419)
Chapter 23 (#u2c3f9712-4580-5c7b-8665-dbbb1cedfd8e)
Chapter 24 (#u86689e5d-d144-5015-a6d0-5bffe808692a)
Chapter 25 (#ue29ba55e-1d82-5da9-93da-7424979c1c63)
Chapter 26 (#u87dd51b3-ff6e-55a4-8b73-fa9886fe297f)
Chapter 27 (#u6df9faaa-76b7-5979-9a45-c52a1576aedb)
Chapter 28 (#u4a024476-98c1-54e9-9c2c-134e06b52683)
Chapter 29 (#uda0c2bdf-6ce0-54d3-9d85-7e37f25be28d)
Chapter 30 (#u174587f7-5c47-5933-95d3-cdc2adec2fd1)
Chapter 31 (#uc6a9ec75-4d6b-5e0e-8b90-3f7fbe26f43e)
Chapter 32 (#uc859b76c-64dc-509e-b907-8357516d4a12)
Chapter 33 (#ude163d15-4edf-5e21-9b3c-68424ab729ab)
Chapter 34 (#ue2971e76-927f-51eb-b034-cd9c23917bf3)
Chapter 35 (#udafb6b8e-79b9-5fc7-a824-610e8ca59bf4)
Chapter 36 (#ude332912-5563-55a9-b5cf-614e50d15787)
Chapter 37 (#ud375ebd4-10af-511a-b0ec-f4795b67c363)
Chapter 38 (#u1a889391-beaf-5294-9571-f08c1d8741d1)
Chapter 39 (#u8e29bc9d-42f0-545f-af0f-78feb02f3675)
Chapter 40 (#uc0936626-9eef-520b-b18a-300241c9ac8b)
Chapter 41 (#ua09bfc00-6565-50b5-a5d9-cfb63bd09cce)
Chapter 42 (#uc2d9b1d0-7f53-5f79-aa75-9df38f2efea5)
Chapter 43 (#u77ef27f0-2653-531b-863c-bee9d99dc756)
Chapter 44 (#u047ac4ef-e406-5618-bde4-772c5091a4e8)
Chapter 45 (#u105a6d01-623c-5555-8ff6-a6c0d4d7a976)
Chapter 46 (#ub1b53f18-3249-5379-97a0-9df4428b4bcb)
Chapter 47 (#ubbe92afd-b6ad-5dd5-96ba-46675cecec2f)
Chapter 48 (#uaa15f9b4-d3b5-5049-a11b-cbcded4c9862)
Chapter 49 (#uaec34e2f-d4be-523a-837d-c861da65f956)
Chapter 50 (#ubb057830-543b-5fd7-a484-4b0e01b6e31f)
Chapter 51 (#ud6f6b956-b38c-560b-a91e-fc6e5758b0ee)
Chapter 52 (#u102c52e6-e6bc-5c6f-b1f8-d58d63eb547e)
Chapter 53 (#u301cc742-d726-588d-8d26-87cad0780f11)
Chapter 54 (#ub31d0f98-d6f2-5e0e-ad32-038e0b68c52d)
Chapter 55 (#u8ffae603-f655-573d-97f1-e840da423052)
Chapter 56 (#udb15fea9-d080-5103-8fd7-9bd0fce79ed4)
Chapter 57 (#ub4fc5060-864a-5e52-a51f-9b8fc8df0d2f)
Chapter 58 (#u9060a476-fb0a-55f0-b6a0-545b2d1bbd5d)
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Chapter 60 (#u50b5448f-fe26-5bb9-9ff4-d0d70235159b)
Chapter 61 (#ud8b93b6c-c9b9-5ad3-9187-2710d171e264)
Chapter 62 (#u8fe92e92-2a8d-587c-9141-771a8dab50ee)
Chapter 63 (#u1c9dc4c4-955e-59f8-9b40-5205dc5f0e6d)
Chapter 64 (#u0a97b47b-0b1f-5670-9798-2642bc6d4ab3)
Chapter 65 (#ud949483f-0085-5459-a554-5d8f16eaeb45)
Chapter 66 (#ud28fa2d2-8d88-5482-b01a-dce0608e637e)
Chapter 67 (#uc2edc7e0-7c6b-5f2a-8715-63c4d3c79e71)
Chapter 68 (#u2e747f9c-14cd-5ba6-8406-416bc97ebdc2)
Chapter 69 (#u1b7e23f6-1060-5df0-9980-92a48b4a7da2)
Chapter 70 (#u7ebd165b-2a7e-509e-9660-7bce94ff4269)
Chapter 71 (#ubea073e4-b14e-5c7a-99ab-cfa7fc416968)
Chapter 72 (#uc9198a5c-97a6-5a04-a9d8-b4ec392a30c2)
Chapter 73 (#ua2a265de-4b63-5233-b2c0-7f2e9160ed88)
Chapter 74 (#uef1f9162-cb97-5fec-8a1e-756aff7faa18)
Chapter 75 (#uc1cc4354-a9ce-57c2-9086-491f9607a628)
Chapter 76 (#u8e397e5b-b970-5305-84a1-dc5a7d40854e)
Chapter 77 (#u4b1ed761-5813-5267-999d-5cdd84587f56)
Chapter 78 (#u66079747-418c-5103-ac74-667dd3fdaefc)
Chapter 79 (#uda658c0c-59a6-54fe-89b1-dbe3a1855a8c)
Chapter 80 (#ue472112e-feed-5814-815c-ae541bbb2d6d)
Chapter 81 (#u85a63881-def3-5dbd-b1ae-1569bd970928)
Chapter 82 (#ue8496223-5a4a-5549-a2a6-a626f8941c50)
Chapter 83 (#u98fdb8d7-cb3a-5497-b3b4-44bddc500dc9)
Chapter 84 (#u4d6fe998-2596-5e83-a133-947c54e7ac43)
Chapter 85 (#u693b7ac7-7751-566f-be89-da13766a4457)
