David Lawrence, in addition to being a talented novelist, is also an acclaimed poet and highly successful scriptwriter. "Cold Kill" is his third novel in the Detective Stella Mooney series--his previous titles, "The Dead Sit Round in a Ring" and "Nothing Like the Night, "have received widespread rave reviews. The author lives in southwest London and is hard at work on the next book in the series, which Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur will publish next year. Philip Jinadu has worked with Youth for Christ and Pioneer and is now an evangelist in Bristol.