Determined to become the right-hand man of London mobster Al Kazan, Tim Hawk is delighted to be put in charge of Kazan's young new bride, just as a full-scale mob war begins to undermine Kazan's criminal empire
A British author of some 2 dozen books, half of which are crime novels, Russell is an ex-chairman of the Crime Writers Association. He has written several non-fiction works and half a dozen historical novels. He is currently working on the third book in his Croome Victorian saga, the first of which is AFTER SHE DROWNED, telling of forbidden love in the Victorian Church, and the second THE CAPTAIN'S WARD, telling of a young girl's coming of age in Victorian Britain.