**Finalist for The People’s Book Prize**

**‘UNMISSABLE’** – LEE CHILD **‘A RARE TALENT’** – DAILY MAIL **‘BRILLIANT’** – JEFFREY DEAVER

When a successful businessman is brutally murdered, the police suspect his glamorous wife and her young lover. Then the victim's business partner suffers the same gruesome fate and when yet another body is discovered, seemingly unrelated to the first two, the police are baffled. The only clue is DNA that leads them to two women: one dead, the other in prison.

With a steady stream of bodies arriving at the morgue, can DI Geraldine Steel find the killer before the killer stages another deadly attack?

**'*Stop Dead* is a whodunit of the highest order' - *CrimeSquad***

For fans of Mark Billingham, Angela Marsons and Peter James

Look out for more DI Geraldine Steel investigations in *Cut Short*, *Road Closed*, *Dead End*, *Death Bed*, *Stop Dead*, *Fatal Act*, *Killer Plan*, *Murder Ring* and *Deadly Alibi*

Don't miss the DI Ian Peterson series: *Cold Sacrifice*, *Race to Death* and *Blood Axe*

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### About the Author

Leigh Russell is the author of the internationally bestselling Geraldine Steel and Ian Peterson crime series. She studied at the University of Kent, gaining a master’s degree in English. She has a Diploma in Specific Learning Difficulties from the British Dyslexia Association, and a Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. For many years she taught English at secondary school, specialising in supporting pupils with specific learning difficulties. She is married, has two daughters, and lives in north-west London. In addition to writing, she guest-lectures for the Society of Authors, universities and colleges, and runs regular creative writing courses for the prestigious Writers Lab in the UK and Greece. She also runs the manuscript assessment service for the CWA.