The Pay-Off

A Detective Chief Inspector Roger Hayes mystery - The body of Lulu Starewska, an eccentric antique dealer, is found in her home in an Oxfordshire village. A specialist in Russian icons, Lulu owned a gallery in London, which its manager, Raoul Musset, seems destined to inherit. That is, until an arson attack destroys the gallery. A tangled network of shadowy Russian contacts will eventually lead DCI Hayes to St Petersburg, where he meets up with British Intelligence