The Rina Walker Series

A London-based female assassin runs into trouble on a mission in 1970s Mexico in this action-packed debut crime thriller. Acapulco 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill. When she wakes to discover her employer’s severed head on her bedside table, and a man with an AK 47 coming through the door of her hotel room, she must use all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape. Notting Hill 1956: Fifteen-year-old Rina is scavenging and stealing to support her siblings and her alcoholic mother. When a local gangster attacks her younger sister, Rina wreaks revenge. Innocence betrayed, Rina faces the brutality of the post-war London underworld—a world that teaches her the skill to kill . . . Praise for Harm “Hugh Fraser’s Harm is the perfect combination of action, mystery and intrigue. It also features some superbly constructed characters, who develop over the course of the story—which is a rarity in mystery novels.” —Benjamin Maio Mackay, actor “Go and buy it quick. It is very filmic and very taut.... This book will do you HARM because you won’t want to do anything else but sit down and get to the next bit fast. Fabulous.” —Celia Imrie, actress, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Calendar Girls, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

A beautiful contract killer is caught in a web of deceit as two crime bosses battle it out in 1960s London in this crime thriller. London 1964. Gang warfare is breaking out. Rina Walker struggles to survive amid the battles and betrayals of a gruesome cast of racketeers and gangsters. Her considerable skills as an assassin are her only hope of survival. Playing one side off against the other to protect those she loves, Rina is caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse where her life is just one of many at stake . . .

A hit woman moves from London’s seedy criminal underworld into the realm of Cold War spies and targeted killings . . . London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered in a Soho club. Rina Walker takes out the killer—and attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove. But when a member of British Military Intelligence becomes aware of her failure to fulfill a contract, issued by an inmate of Broadmoor, he forces her into the equally deadly arena of the Cold War, with orders to kill an enemy agent. Now Rina must call upon all her skills, not simply to survive but to protect the ones she loves.

In 1960s London, a female contract killer goes after a depraved aristocrat in a quest to save his trafficked victims . . . In 1961, George Preston is in control of crime in West London, and Rina Walker is his favoured contract killer. When Rina is hired by a Soho vice king to investigate the disappearance of girls from his clubs, she discovers that they’re being supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre tastes. Soon, Rina’s pursuit of the missing girls, and her efforts to save the innocent from slaughter, become increasingly perilous as she grapples with interwoven layers of corruption and betrayal—and tries to survive a confrontation with depravity . . .

Four novels in the edgy series about a female contract killer in 1960s London.   Harm In Acapulco, Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill—until she wakes to find a severed head in her hotel room and a man with an AK-47 charging through the door, in this action-packed series debut that takes us into the traumatic childhood in postwar London that made Rina what she is today . . .   Threat London 1961. Rina is hired by a Soho vice king to investigate the disappearance of girls from his clubs, and discovers they’re being supplied to a member of the aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre tastes. Her efforts to save the innocent from slaughter become increasingly perilous as she grapples with layers of depravity, corruption, and betrayal . . .   Malice London 1964. As gang warfare breaks out, Rina struggles to survive amid the battles and betrayals of a gruesome cast of racketeers and gangsters. Her considerable skills as an assassin are her only hope of survival. But it’s not just her own life at stake . . .   Stealth London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered, and when Rina Walker takes out the killer she attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove. But the stakes get even bigger when British intelligence forces her into the deadly arena of the Cold War . . .   Praise for the series:   “The perfect combination of action, mystery and intrigue.” —Benjamin Maio Mackay, actor and podcaster