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Two cases from the DCS Palmer and the Serial Murder Squad series.Succession.When James Dawn, the boss of South London's major crime family is assassinated in the Walworth road by scooter killers suspicion falls on Jim Dooley the boss of the West End Drugs business but there are others in the frame including James uncle Stan who thinks he should have been made boss when Jame's dad retired, or Johnny Robinson and his North London gang and all the time working her intrigue and double dealing behind the scenes is James Dawn's wife, Eve. And then it all becomes murkier when Dooley is hit and dumped in the Thames. Blood samples lead Palmer and the team towards Eve's loyal men. Will they break under questioning in custody? Eve's bringing a major money launderer into the picture, somebody her husband had thrown out of the country for skimming his washed money. It was a ploy by Eve to get access to the Dawns foreign accounts and as soon as she has that the launderer meets his end too. The final proof falls into place and Palmer is after Eve, she runs and a cat-and-mouse chase over a couple of days through London with Eve using all the tricks a mob boss's wife has learned over the years to escape custody making deals with Johnny Robinson on a partnership basis but in the end he hangs her out to dry and Palmer manages to just in time stop a Panama bound plane on the runway at Heathrow and haul Eve off. The Black Rose. Geoffrey and Linda Hanley run a Garden Centre in Harrow. Geoffrey and Linda Hanley are dead. Forensics discover their death is from arconite poisoning, arconite is derived from a popular garden plant. Their deaths coincide with Geoffrey Handley breeding the first truly black rose which will make him very rich indeed and this raised Palmer's suspicions. The investigation leads to rival Garden Centre owners the Blooms who have been stealing cuttings of the black rose with the help of Handley's manager Jim Riley. Riley gets cold feet when the thefts turn to murder and past murders involving the Blooms and their acquisition of other Garden Centres in the past come to light. The Blooms have the rose and many growing cuttings and Riley decided to trash them before the Blooms can exhibit the Black rose at Chelsea Flower Show on the Royal Visit Day. Bloom is aware of the plan is after Riley to kill him and they face one another in the Blooms greenhouse where Riley accidently kills Bloom with a pair of shears. Riley runs, he doesn't want to be arrested before he can stop the false claim to own the Black rose that Bloom's wife will make at Chelsea. He gets into Chelsea through the staff entrance and makes his way around the back of the main marquee and alters the signage on the Black rose to say the Handleys were the breeders. When the rose display is opened in front of HRH and the sign seen the media go wild, HRH has to be removed by security and Mrs Bloom faces questions. She is unaware at this time of her husband's death. Riley flees the scene Palmer's Squad are after him although by this time Palmer knows the Blooms' past and the fact that Riley was being blackmailed. The end twist is quite different as Riley comes into custody and, on the quiet, Palmer, who realises Riley was blackmailed and duped into siding with the Blooms in stealing the Black rose, liaises with the executors of the Handley's estate which has no family beneficiaries to get Riley given a chance to make it work in tandem with the Handley's accountant who we have found out earlier embezzled enough money from the company to set it back on an even keel.

UK Serial Killers from 1930s to 2021, their lives, crimes, and punishments. Contents in chronological order;John Christie; John Bodkin Adams; John Straffen; Peter Manuel; Graham Young; Ian Brady; Fred & Rose West; Malcolm Green; Peter Dinsdale; Patrick Mackay; Robert Maudsley; John Childs; Trevor Hardy; Peter Sutcliffe; Harold Shipman; Donald Neilsen; Archibald Hall; Dennis Nilsen; Glyn Dix; Mark Robinson; Robert Black; Arthur Hutchinson; Jeremy Bamber; John Duffy & David Mulcahy; Michael Lupo; Kenneth Erskine; Stephen Griffiths; Anthony Arkwright; Steven Grieveson; Beverley Allitt; Peter Tobin; Robert Napper; Colin Ireland; Peter Moore; David Moor; Colin Norris; Anthony Hardy; Choban Family Murders; Mark Hobson; Mark Martin; Rahan Arshad; Steven Wright; David Tilley; Levi Bellfield. Some will be familiar to the reader, others will not and those are likely to shock you most. Not for the faint-hearted.

In Burning Ambition a burnt-out prison van with three pre-murdered bodies inside doesn't make sense. Especially as one of the bodies wasn't a prisoner and should not even be there. Why would these three be killed and what has it to do with the final signature heist being put together by an Organised Crime boss to rob the Royal Mint in Wales? In Takeaway Terror delivery boys on scooters working for a reputable meal delivery service are being targetted and mown down by a large van. Palmer thinks this has something to do with two organised crime gangs who are about to go to war for the lucrative London West End drugs trade. When an old adversary with skills in bomb-making joins one gang Palmer must act and act fast. Will anybody be left standing once the bullets fly, including Palmer?

Ministry of Murder. Suspicion is raised when three bodies turn up in the Thames over a period of months and all three were employed at the Ministry of Health in the Drug Procurement department. Palmer's team take a look with a forensic accountant and discover things are not how they should be. The money trail leads higher up to Senior Civil Servants and an MP. Family liasons with European Organised crime come to light as the body count grows and people panic.The Bodybuilder. The Pathology Lab calls in Palmer when two bodies with limbs missing turn up. The worrying part is that the limbs have been expertly amputated, why? The third body sets a pattern that can only mean that there is a serial killer on the loose with surgical expertise who is building a body. Who would do such a thing and for what reason. Another DCS Palmer fast moving thriller that never lets the pace cool down.

An in-depth look at the major London criminals, their gangs, their robberies and murders from the 1930s to the present day. Starting with the Messina Brothers in the 1930s who introduced people trafficking and major prostitution to the Capital through to the Hatton Garden Heist and the current crop of gangs. On the way through we visit all the major heists including Brinks Mat, Great Train Robbery, Baker Street bank Robbery, Knightsbridge Safe Deposit robbery and many more and take a look at the masterminds who planned them and carried them out and what happened afterwards. When millions of pounds are involved loyalties are broken and bodies turn up. We look at the Krays, the Richardsons, John Palmer, McVitie, Cornell, Fraser, Reynolds, Biggs and the other 'names' with much new information. Barry Faulkner is the youngest of an extended family of South London villains operating in the 50s - 90s and although not involved himself that world he grew up in had given him an insight rarely seen.