Rite-Off: A High-Stakes Thriller in the South of France

She came from nothing. Clawed her way to the top.Then one day they snatched it all away.As the French Riviera swelters in the summer sun, revenge is a dish best served hot...THIS ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING THRILLER IS FULL OF VIVID CHARACTERS AND STARTLING TWISTS AND TURNS WHICH WILL KEEP YOU GUESSING TO THE END... A DENOUEMENT WITH SHATTERING CONSEQUENCES FOR WESTERN SOCIETY!If you love thrillers, this is one you just can't miss...SYNOPSIS:A disenchanted Scottish detective is sent to the South of France after billionaire internet entrepreneur Shona Gladstone goes missing from her palatial villa.Detective Inspector Barney Mains finds a super-rich elite untouched by waves of virus which have devastated the rest of the world - and a French police force only going through the motions.Then the mangled wreck of her car is found on a mountainside, leading him and his sparky new sidekick DC Ffiona McLuskey to question how it got there - unseen by the web of cameras spun across the entire region.There's been no ransom demand, raising the possibility that Gladstone may have staged her own very elaborate vanishing act. If not, then someone has gone to an awful lot of trouble to get rid of her.Suspicion falls on a trusted member of her inner circle. Barney and Ffiona, now working closely with dapper Capitaine Jean-Luc Verten of the Police Nationale in Nice, are shocked that their suspect may be linked to certain powerful politicians.Surely such prominent figures could have nothing to do with the disappearance. Unless she posed some kind of threat to the prevailing order...When the shocking truth finally emerges, Barney is faced with a terrifying choice.And his decision could shake the foundations of the Western world.SYNOPSIS:Dour Scotsman, DI Barney Mains is ordered to the French Riviera when Britain's wealthiest woman - internet entrepreneur Shona Gladstone - vanishes from her palatial villa.​He's not comfortable in the summer heat - nor with having to take along a precocious high-flying DC called Ffiona McLuskey - and is keen to get back home as soon as possible.However, with no ransom demand having been received long after she was last seen, Barney realises that there's something extremely odd about the case. Like the fact that his countrywoman's highly visible white Porsche has vanished too.When the car turns up wrecked in the mountains, he and Ffiona have to wonder who would dare to abduct so prominent a celebrity. And more importantly, why?A member of the missing woman's staff appears to be implicated. And a potential link to top politicians leaves Barney facing a decision which until now would have had him screaming in his sleep.And sometimes they leave you no choice but to do the unthinkable...