Dead Man's Slaughter

Inner-city Bristol: Seventy-three kilos of A-grade heroin, worth a cool few million pounds, have gone missing. A lot of people on both sides of the law want to get their hands on it.But Julius Spicer, the likely culprit, has just been brutally murdered. DC John Cromer, DS Hallam's do-good partner, gets mixed up with the beautiful Opal MacAlpine, Julius's stepdaughter. Opal is a suspect in the murder and is also now the closest connection to the heroin. She swears she doesn't know where the dead man's slaughter is but some heavy duty underworld figures are sure they can make her change her tune."