A Serpent UncoiledA missing mobster. A bizarre spiritualist society. And three deaths, linked by a chilling forensic detail. Working as an enforcer in London's criminal underworld brought Dan Shaper to the edge of a breakdown. Now he's a private investigator, kept perilously afloat by a growing cocktail of drugs. He needs to straighten up and rebuild his life, but instead gets the attention of his old gangland masters and a job offer from Mr George Glass. The elderly

Sakuya is shaken up by Chihiro's sudden but permanent appearance

Toby struggled with the same personal and professional problems that so often vex his human friends

one that's as funny as it is moving

we mean packed for not a scrap of space is wasted

and the sort of poems that children can use as models for their own writing

As the local police struggle to restore order to a city on its knees Nathan Sutherland - under pressure from the British Ambassador and distraught relatives - sets out into the dark and rain-swept streets in an attempt to discover the truth behind Whiteread's death

all of them

Never gone from almost to deed

are bound to creative

Is there more to his illness than met the eye

fascism took hold

but also the month