Edward Blake was a political lobbyist, one of those Thatcherite 80s success stories. When his wife India was kidnapped, he didn’t trouble the police, just paid the twenty-five grand. When she didn’t show up, and the kidnapper went to ground, he did call in the law, and they came to the conclusion that the whole thing was a set-up between India and some secret lover.But then, three months later, she turned up in a box in an allotment shed near York racecourse, where she had been left to starve to death. Then the police got really interested, especially when they found out about the two and a half million pounds’ worth of life insurance he’d taken out on her the year before. But with no proof, they had to let Blake go in the end.The insurance company are less than keen on paying out, however. Jill Sheridan, insurance assessor, needs someone to do some legwork, poking around in odd corners of Blake’s life, and her thoughts turn to an old flame: Sam Turner...The Sam Turner mysteries, of which this is the fourth, have made John Baker one of the most highly acclaimed new crime writers on the British mystery scene.PRAISE FOR JOHN BAKER‘If you don’t know John Baker's work yet, try it because it’s good’Shot in the Dark‘His characters endear themselves to us, and we care what happens to them. The writing is always quirky, never flashy, and ... he leaves us wanting more of an engaging crew who feel like friends by the end of the book’Val McDermid, Manchester Evening NewsFICTIONCover by Splash£9.99

A SAM TURNER NOVEL: 6 Sam is doing his best to bury his past, but it’s hard when his mistakes keep coming back to haunt him. First his ex-wife is brutally murdered in her own home. Then, when another of Sam’s exes is murdered, the police are convinced they need look no further to solve the crime. Sam goes on the run, dodging not only the police, but the real killer, and finds himself embroiled in a terrifying mystery where he is both fugitive and detective. To protect the women who used to love him he must anticipate the moves of a murderer — and the killer shows no sign of being satisfied just yet . . . ‘In this sixth Sam Turner novel Baker turns up the heat, producing an enjoyably pacy thriller that leaves its predecessors standing’ TIME OUT

A SAM TURNER NOVEL: 5   Angeles Falco looks as if she has walked straight out of a fifties detective movie and into Sam Turner’s office: she’s beautiful, dark and enigmatic. She is also practically blind. All Angeles will say is that she and her sister are being followed and she fears for their lives.   Sam is only too happy to help such a gorgeous client -but when her sister Isabel turns up brutally murdered on a deserted hillside, and Sam starts to feel a growing affection for Angeles, the case seems to be getting beyond even his world-weary experience. Particularly when he finds himself up against a serial killer whose dark fantasies may well destroy Sam’s attempt at a new life...   ‘Five novels in to the Sam Turner series, Baker now ranks among the best that Brit crime writing has to offer’ Literary Review