The second DI Garibaldi Novel. Private tutoring is booming, and someone's making a killing. An Autumnal Sunday morning, a hungover jogger stumbles across a dead body, covered in blood, in Barnes Old Common Cemetery, a long- abandoned Gothic graveyard frequented by druggies and drunkards.
Introducing Detective DI Garibaldi, a country-music loving, self-educated detective, and the only cop in the Metropolitan Police who can't drive a car. 'DI Garibaldi takes the biscuit - my kind of detective in my part of London. Ingenious, entertaining, surprising - everything you want in a satisfying murder mystery.' Gyles Brandreth
Just before Ruby started Sixth Form, her father died from a heart attack. In the difficult months that followed Ruby became so depressed that she attempted suicide. The night before term begins, Ruby finds an envelope addressed to her in her father's handwriting. Inside is a list: 'Ten Things I Hope You Do Before You Leave School'.
DI Garibaldi takes the biscuit - my kind of detective in my part of London. Ingenious, entertaining, surprising - everything you want in a satisfying murder mystery. Gyles Brandreth