Hard-nosed female investigative reporter Riley Gavin is tasked to find out. It's an assignment that follows a bloody trail from a windswept south coast seafront to the balmy intrigues of Spain's Costa de Crime – and sparks off a chain of grisly murders.

Old gangsters never die...

they simply get rubbed out!

But WHO is ordering the hits?

And WHY?

Hard-nosed female investigative reporter Riley Gavin is tasked to find out. It's an assignment that follows a bloody trail from a windswept south coast seafront to the balmy intrigues of Spain's Costa de Crime – and sparks off a chain of grisly murders.

As she digs, Riley uncovers a deadly web of vendettas, double crosses and venom-tinged hatred in an underworld that's at war with itself.

The prize? Control of a faltering criminal empire.

But this is one story that soon gets too personal - as Riley discovers dark forces that will stop at nothing to silence her. Dodging bullets, attack dogs and psychotic thugs, she fights to unravel the threads of a deadly conspiracy.

Suddenly facing a deadline takes on a whole new chilling meaning...