David W. Rudlin

Just moments after Inspector McLean and his team leave the scene of a quadruple homicide, the whole place disappears into a ball of fire that consumes six more victims. And all of the evidence. With no way to identify the bodies, the detectives are unsure where to begin their investigation - until an agent of MI6 walks into Scotland Yard and starts issuing orders. The CIA isn't far behind, threatening to turn an impossible case into an international crisis with unimaginable consequences. The action flows to Moscow and back, orchestrated by a brilliant, supremely well-connected peer of the realm who makes Machiavelli look like an amateur. The only question is: Whose side is he on?

Detective Sally Chan is ready to head home for her first early night in six months when a stranger walks into Scotland Yard and asks for her by name. He gives her a message that makes her blood run cold, three First Class Tickets to Hong Kong, and a photo that instantly convinces her that she and her team have no choice but to get involved in the case.It's a picture of a prominent member of the Royal Family with a heroin needle sticking out of his arm.Two nights later she's having dinner with Wong Zhi, the boss of the Black Sun, Hong Kong's most powerful triad.Wong Zhi asks Sally, Inspector Ian McLean, and Detective Thomas McMillan to look into the death of his second-in-command. In exchange, he offers information that could either keep the royal junkie's privacy intact, or bring down the monarchy.It's a case that pushes Sally, Thomas, and McLean to the breaking point - one in which everyone they meet may be culpable and no one is what he seems.

Nikki Waters wanted to be a star. So she left her home in England, flew to Tokyo, and joined Japan's top girl group as the lead singer. She was well on her way to fame and fortune until the night she went to her boss's apartment and found him lying in a pool of blood. The weapon: a samurai sword.Nikki was thrown in jail, charged with murder, and forbidden to talk to anyone except the lawyer she didn't have. Given Japan's 99%+ conviction rate, there was nothing standing between Nikki Waters and the gallows.Nothing except Inspector Ian McLean of Scotland Yard. Forced to work undercover, can McLean and his detectives Sally Chan and Thomas McMillan rescue Nikki from the terrifying jaws of the Japanese justice system?"Broken Idol" is the sixth Inspector McLean Mystery by David W. Rudlin.

Brian Cahill, a British investment banker, made 16 reasonably uneventful business trips to Bangkok.On the 17th he came home in a box.The Thai authorities say he died of natural causes, but there are a lot of pieces missing from their story - such as the fact Brian's body had been hacked open with a meat cleaver.Scotland's Inspector Ian McLean and his associates Sally Chan and Thomas McMillan are dispatched to Thailand to solve the mystery. Their best leads are a dead bar girl and the baby she left behind, but in the dark recesses of the Patpong bar district absolutely nothing is what it seems."A Memory of Elephants" is the sixth book in the popular Inspector McLean Mystery series by David W. Rudlin.

The YouTube video made a chilling threat: "Over the next ten days I will post the profiles of five people who have escaped justice. Every one of them deserves to die. You, the people, will decide which one actually does. Read the profiles, then click Like on who you think is the worst of a bad bunch. The person who gets the most votes dies. It's that simple."As Scotland Yard's Inspector McLean and his team fight their way past the anonymity of the internet to find the would-be killer, the size and ferocity of his digital lynch mob grows exponentially. Will the detectives be able to solve the case before murder by popular demand goes viral?"

Clifford Watkins found two rather unusual ways to get rich. The first was a scam involving a diamond mine that had no diamonds, the second an expos that laid bare the dirty secrets of the very industry that paid his bills.Unfortunately, while he was making a lot of money, Clifford was also making a lot of enemies. And one of those enemies wants to put him in an early grave.In "Plot Twist", the sequel to "Diamonds to Die For", Inspector McLean of Scotland Yard follows a trail that leads from Harrods in Knightsbridge to a whorehouse in Putney - via Johannesburg, Gaborone, Mumbai, Surat and Antwerp.The case has no shortage of suspects, but also no sign of answers. Will McLean and his team solve the mystery before they decide the killer did the world a favor?"Plot Twist" is the fourth Inspector McLean Mystery by David W. Rudlin.

China's most famous movie star goes to London for a magazine photo shoot, and ends up at a construction site with a bullet in her brain. Her manager is missing, and Scotland Yard doesn't know whether she's another victim...or a suspect. A furious Chinese ambassador demands action. Anglo-Chinese relations teeter on the edge of chaos.Inspector McLean of Scotland Yard is assigned to the case and quickly finds himself out of his depth. He brings in an expert on the Chinese criminal gangs known as triads: the vice squad's Sally Chan. Together with McLean's enthusiastic, sometimes bumbling assistant Thomas, they depart for Hong Kong and Beijing, hoping the dead celebrity's love life will yield a few answers before political hell breaks loose.As the corpse count mounts, McLean takes increasingly desperate measures. Just how far will he go down the dark corridors of Chinese power in order to catch a killer?Shooting Stars is the third book in the popular Inspector McLean Mystery series by David W. Rudlin.

A rare blue diamond goes missing in London. A terrorist bomb explodes in Mumbai. A feud between brothers turns lethal. A mistress lies to the police to protect her lover. And a New York diamond dealer is too busy fighting with his greedy client to notice the FBI closing in.In "Diamond Blues", Inspector Ian McLean of Scotland Yard flies to India to piece the puzzle together. Making his way through the brilliant colors, fiery tastes, and often indescribable smells of modern Mumbai, he meets a billionaire - the largest donor to Britain's ruling party and the self-proclaimed reincarnation of the Maharaja of Patiala - who simply wants his diamond back. Except nothing in India is ever simple.Dazzled by the storybook wealth but deeply disturbed by the abject poverty that lies right outside every door, McLean finds himself surrounded by a sea of corruption that threatens first his life, and then his soul.Written by David Rudlin, a 10-year veteran of De Beers, "Diamond Blues" brings together the author's first-hand knowledge of the diamond trade and his extensive experience in India. "Diamond Blues" is the second book in the Inspector McLean detective series.

In the basement vaults lie more than $8 billion worth of rough, uncut diamonds. Above, the most advanced security system in all of Europe. Yet somehow two men manage to break into the London headquarters of Delacroix - the most powerful diamond company the world has ever known - without being seen.Only one of them leaves. The other is found lying dead in a pool of blood, the sole clue to his identity a piece of paper with the words "REMEMBER GABORONE".The search for answers takes Inspector Ian McLean of Scotland Yard to Botswana, South Africa, Antwerp, and the dark heart of the global diamond industry.Written by a former top executive for De Beers, Diamonds To Die For is a rare insider's view of what lies behind the sparkle of a girl's best friend.