Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel returns in the fifth in the series, facing a case of grisly murder in London

When a successful businessman is the victim of a vicious murder, all evidence points to his wife and her young lover.

But then the victim's business partner suffers a similarly brutal fate and when yet another body is discovered, seemingly unrelated, the police are baffled.

The only clue is DNA that leads them to two women: one dead, the other in prison.

With rumours growing of a serial killer in the city, the pressure to solve the case is high.

But can Geraldine find the killer before there's yet another deadly attack?

'Stop Dead kept throwing in twists right up until the end' Lucy Conlon, Crime Fiction Lover

''Stop Dead' is a whodunit of the highest order'Crimesquad

'Russell's books just keep on getting better and this one is by far her best.'Euro Crime