The Tower: Post Mortem

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The Tower, previously published as Post Mortem, is a thrilling and vivid crime novel written by a former detective in the Metropolitan Police's murder squad. If you like Sarah Hillary and M. J. Aldridge you will love Kate London.

A long-serving beat cop in the Met and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in London's East End. Left alive on the roof are a five year old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths. Within hours, Lizzie Griffiths has disappeared, and DPS officer Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth around the grisly deaths, in an investigation which takes her into the dark heart of policing in London.

Grounded in the terrifying realities of policing a city where the affluent middle-classes live cheek-by-jowl with the poorest immigrants, this is a complex, intelligent, thrilling crime novel by an author who has walked the beat.

Reviews

'An absorbing debut... The author vividly re-creates the everyday experience ofuniformed police... The result is a complex novel that offers rare insights into how thepolice operate.' - Sunday Times

'Knowledgeable, thoughtful, sensitive and well written... The changing priorities ofpolicing and the evolving prejudices of society in general are ever-present undercurrentsin this excellent and thought-provoking novel.' - Literary Review

'A complex, intelligent, thrilling crime novel by a debut author, from a real servingdetective in the Metropolitan Police's murder squad.' - Weekend Sport

'Intelligent, atmospheric, captivating - this book draws you in and doesn't let you go.A must read.' - Rosamund Lupton

Author Bio

Kate London graduated from Cambridge University and moved to Paris where she trained in theatre. In 2006 Kate joined the Metropolitan Police Service. She finished her career working as part of a Major Investigation Team on SC&O1 - the Metropolitan Police Service's Homicide Command. She resigned from the MPS in August 2014. Her debut novel Post Mortem was published by Corvus in 2015.