DI Marshall is a police officer with a difference - she is ambitious, she is a woman, and she is black.

In the most difficult and personally dangerous case of her career, she
finds herself up against a serial killer
on the loose in the mean streets of South London and Soho, and also against a jealous and prejudiced
senior colleague.

The story builds to a shattering climax - and one of the most unexpected twists in the tail of any modern thriller. Andrew Woodcock is a master of creative tension, and THE THIRD SEAL a gripping page turner of a novel