Naked at the Window: A Harpur & Iles Mystery
by By James, Bill
Category: Fiction , Mystery & Detective , Traditional

Big drug dealer Ralph Ember stumbles on a ghastly surprise when he and sidekick Beau Derek arrive  at the house of yachtsman Barney Coss, his bulk  supplier: Barney and his two women have been  savagely murdered—and the murderers, three drug  rivals from London, are still in the house. Beau dies quickly at their hands; they let Ralph  go—for the moment—but he's a marked man because of what he's seen. When Melanie, Beau's  alluring, ruthless girlfriend, learns what has  happened, she is bent on revenge and wants Ralph as her partner—all the way.Bill James's latest Harpur & Iles police procedural ratchets up  the tension as the cops (the brilliant Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his  ungovernable, half-cracked superior, Assistant  Chief Constable Desmond Iles) fight the drug  barons for control of the city. As a body washes up, and one of the London creeps meets a violent  end, the wily Ralph finds himself starting a  new, very risky career—and Harpur sorts out  what's going on just in time.