DCI Patsy Chalke ? beautiful, rich, Oxford-educated. Owns a riverside penthouse, drives a red Mercedes convertible. DS Bobby Leyden ? the bruiser with the 1000-yard stare from the notorious South London Ferrier estate. Lives on takeaway Chinese and cans of 1664. Drives a Ford. You can take Leyden out of the Ferrier, but you'll never take the Ferrier out of Leyden. Together they are Chalke and Cheese. And together they have to solve a bizarre series of murders. Eighty mourners witnessed the cremation of Stan Figgens, so what was his body doing sitting behind the undertaker's desk an hour later? And whose body did they toast? It isn't long before the local dry-cleaner's body is discovered going round in his own machine. Feared cage fighter Tony Yayale is murdered in his own gym. Another victim is fed to his own pet piranhas. Someone is knocking off South London villains. But who? And why? In 'Meantime' nothing is what it seems to be. AUTHOR: Murray Davies is a former national newspaper reporter who covered most of the major British crime stories and headline court cases for the past thirty years. He is also a winner of the annual worldwide 'Sidewise Award for Alternative History'. He lives in London. SELLING POINTS: ? Stunning debut set in Greenwich, London ? First in a new series featuring appealing and sexy 'chalk and cheese' pair of investigators ? A genuine page turner ? The author is a longstanding journalist with connections
