Linda La Plante is a famous English writer and screenwriter. Among her novels, books about detective Anna Travis from the homicide department of the London police, including the novel “The Bringer of Death,” are particularly successful.

...The name of Alexander Fitzpatrick is well known to law enforcement services in Western countries, and in the United States he is... is still on the federal wanted list, although it has been ten years since Fitzpatrick disappeared without a trace - he may not even be alive. In any case, the odious millionaire drug dealer has long since retired. Therefore, when investigator Anna Travis puts forward a version of Fitzpatrick’s involvement in a chain of mysterious London murders, no one takes her seriously. No one, with the exception of the insightful Jimmy Langton, who is one of the first to understand the danger looming over England: a ruthless killer has appeared in London, bringing death and grief to tens, hundreds of thousands of people...