The Girl with the Long Back: A Harpur & Iles Mystery Series (Harpur & Iles Mysteries)
Bill James has been called "the  Elmore Leonard of Britain's underworld"  (Kirkus Reviews) and has been named a  "Master of Crime" in a mystery roundup by the  London Sunday Times, which said, "There is nothing else quite like this series of police  procedurals. James is concerned with the  dilemmas and difficulties of policing Britain's inner cities, and he addresses these in  hard-edged narratives that leave readers gasping and flinching, praying the people in these  stories never come to live in their streets." In addition to the Harpur and Iles series, James is  the author of other mystery series and a book on Anthony Powell. He lives in Wales.