So far my alphabetical procession is still on track - and it's books like this one that make the idea work really. Bit of a treat this.
From the Blurb:
Britain's best known gangster, Charlie Hook, wants to tell his life story and chooses crime reporter Laurie Lane as reluctant ghost. But the next day Hook is dead, his blood and hair on the walls of his north London mansion.
Opening Lines:
Laurie recognised the voice at once, although the only two words he had ever heard him utter were 'not' and 'guilty'.
Britain's best known gangster, Charlie Hook, wants to tell his life story and chooses crime reporter Laurie Lane as his reluctant ghost. But the next day Hook is dead, his blood and hair on the walls of his north London mansion.
Who has killed the last of the London Godfathers, the man who used to be a driver for the Kray twins? Laurie needs to find the killer to keep his job.