David Lawrence

David Lawrence is the pseudonym of David Harsent.  Writing as David Lawrence, David Pascoe and Jack Curtis he has worked extensively in television drama and published thrillers that have been translated into fifteen languages.  For his poetry and work in music theatre see David Harsent.

DOWN INTO DARKNESS, Michael Joseph, 2007

The naked body of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside. Scrawled across her back, the words 'DIRTY GIRL'. Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney and the AMIP 5 squad are faced with a murder as baffling as it is chilling. With no means to identify the victim and no apparent motive, the case is blocked, until...A man is found on a bench by the river, his throat cut back to the vertebrae. And, as before, the killer has left a trademark comment: 'FILTHY COWARD'. Stella and her team can see there's a connection: but what? One victim is a young girl - maybe one of the hookers who work the Strip; the other a researcher for a prominent and controversial MP. More evidence is needed. And soon enough, it comes; another death, another message...