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Willing flesh / by Adam Creed.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Creed, Adam. D. I. Staffe ; 2.D.I. Staffe ; 2.Publication details: London : Faber, 2010.Description: 416 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780571245260 (pbk.)
  • 0571245269 (pbk.)
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[Christmas is coming and DI Staffe is trying to make a go of it with his on-off girlfriend, Sylvie, when a murdered woman is discovered in a swanky City hotel room. Staffe becomes obsessed with Elena Danya, the dead, blonde and beguiling, high-end prostitute. When another, altogether more down-at-heel working girl, is killed and their mutual, aristocratic friend and bad-girl, Arrabella, goes missing, Staffe is drawn into the whole gamut of London's alien niches: brothels and gentleman's clubs; banks and tenement estates. The evidence begins to point to a coy sociopath and voyeuristic predator, Graham Blears, but Staffe is not convinced and is increasingly drawn away from the city and towards the roots of a tangled menage of City banker, Russian oligarch, and Turkish playboy, forcing himself down into the higher echelons of the British establishment, whose barricades begin to stonewall the investigation. When his Chief, Pennington, cuts him loose, Staffe becomes the hunted instead of the hunter, with grave consequences for the women who are close to him.]
Summary: Christmas is coming and DI Staffe is trying to make a go of things with his girlfriend, Sylvie. A murdered woman is discovered in a city hotel room: Elena Danya, a high-end prostitute. Staffe investigates, but then a friend of hers is found dead and their mutual aristocratic friend, Arabella, goes missing. The evidence points to a voyeuristic predator, Graham Blears. However, Staffe is drawn away from the city to a tangled menage involving a City banker, a Russian oligarch and a Turkish playboy, pushing into the higher echelons of the British establishment, whose barricades begin to stonewall the investigation. Then Pennington, his Chief, cuts him loose and suddenly Staffe becomes the hunted - with grave consequences for the women who are close to him.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Gripping contemporary crime featuring the new detective hero DI Staffe in the underbelly of modern London.

[Christmas is coming and DI Staffe is trying to make a go of it with his on-off girlfriend, Sylvie, when a murdered woman is discovered in a swanky City hotel room. Staffe becomes obsessed with Elena Danya, the dead, blonde and beguiling, high-end prostitute. When another, altogether more down-at-heel working girl, is killed and their mutual, aristocratic friend and bad-girl, Arrabella, goes missing, Staffe is drawn into the whole gamut of London's alien niches: brothels and gentleman's clubs; banks and tenement estates. The evidence begins to point to a coy sociopath and voyeuristic predator, Graham Blears, but Staffe is not convinced and is increasingly drawn away from the city and towards the roots of a tangled menage of City banker, Russian oligarch, and Turkish playboy, forcing himself down into the higher echelons of the British establishment, whose barricades begin to stonewall the investigation. When his Chief, Pennington, cuts him loose, Staffe becomes the hunted instead of the hunter, with grave consequences for the women who are close to him.]

Christmas is coming and DI Staffe is trying to make a go of things with his girlfriend, Sylvie. A murdered woman is discovered in a city hotel room: Elena Danya, a high-end prostitute. Staffe investigates, but then a friend of hers is found dead and their mutual aristocratic friend, Arabella, goes missing. The evidence points to a voyeuristic predator, Graham Blears. However, Staffe is drawn away from the city to a tangled menage involving a City banker, a Russian oligarch and a Turkish playboy, pushing into the higher echelons of the British establishment, whose barricades begin to stonewall the investigation. Then Pennington, his Chief, cuts him loose and suddenly Staffe becomes the hunted - with grave consequences for the women who are close to him.

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