The Body in the Stairwell

You can run. You can hide. But you can’t escape… Jonathan Hale is terrified. The wealthy property lawyer and money launderer is back home in Surrey after a nightmare experience in a U.S. jail. The police have him under secret surveillance. But Hales’s fears lie elsewhere. His plea bargain has earned him the enmity of The Reptile , a notoriously cold-hearted gangster, now confined for life in a maximum-security jail in Arizona thanks to Hale. He’s taken precautions, moved house, hidden his identi