"Things seem to be on the up for builder Mark Poynter. He's got himself a nice little earner taking care of the sizeable property portfolio built up from the career earnings of former Premier League bad-boy and local celebrity, Danny Kidd. But when Danny puts an interested party's nose out of joint by using his star status to gazump them on a development site - the derelict Admiral Guthrie pub - things turn ugly, leaving Mark to deal with the consequences. Meanwhile local villain, Hamlet dupes Mark into unwittingly help him launder vast sums of dirty cash. But when it drags the area to the brink of gang warfare, Mark's help is needed to try and broker a truce. At the Admiral Guthrie secrets from the past meet conflicts of the present - will the rising flames reduce Mark's future to ashes?"
"Monica aimed to be a high-flying executive, but when the misogynistic bullying from the privileged pale stale males becomes too much she quits. At her lowest ebb, a chance remark from her brother Paddy identifies a business opportunity - pet-sitting! She's enthusiastic, she loves animals, and she's got the management skills: it's bound to be a success, isn't it? Monica quickly finds dealing with her team of misfits as easy as herding kittens. Monica and Paddy soon very publicly clash with a popular personal trainer who treats their local park like his own personal kingdom. However, after he is brutally murdered with his own dumbbell, his online devotees are quick to land the blame on Monica. When the demands for retribution threaten to overspill into Monica's real life, she knows she must find the killer before the lynch mob comes for her."
"When builder Mark Poynter discovers a murder on his worksite all of his financial problems suddenly seem a lot closer to home: was this a warning his debts are overdue? Suspected of being the killer and worried at being the intended victim, the murder only makes Mark's money problems worse, leading him to turn to the local villain, Hamlet, who has his own unique repayment plan in mind for Mark. When two more deaths plunge him even further into debt, Mark finds himself faced with a choice - help the police and clear his name or help the villain and clear his debt. Set in the Medway Towns on the grey margins of criminality, where no job's too big, no dodge's too small. . ."
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