DCI Patsy Chalke ¿ beautiful, rich, Oxford-educated. Owns a riverside penthouse, drives a red Mercedes convertible.

DS Bobby Leyden ¿ the bruiser with the 1000-yard stare from the notorious South London Ferrier estate. Lives on take-away Chinese and cans of 1664. Drives a Ford..You can take Leyden out of the Ferrier, but you¿ll never take the Ferrier out of Leyden.

Together they are Chalke and Cheese. And together they have to solve a bizarre series of murders.

Eighty mourners witnessed the cremation of Stan Figgens, so what was his body doing sitting behind the undertaker¿s desk an hour later? And who did they burn?

Soon afterwards the local dry-cleaner¿s body is discovered going round in his own machine. Feared cage fighter Tony Yayale is murdered in his own gym. Another victim is fed to his own pet piranhas.

Someone is knocking off South London villains. But who? And why?

In Meantime nothing is what it seems to be.