The Ghost of Thomas Reed — David Connolly

Why is somebody killing homeless people in London? When Thomas Reed asks this, after seeing one of his friends deliberately run down and killed, he finds more questions than answers. The police don't want to know and Thomas's criminal record and homeless status do nothing to encourage them.

Then Thomas becomes the target of a bogus police investigation and begins to see a pattern to the deaths. This raises a little interest on the part of the police. As he digs deeper Thomas makes some new alliances and renews some old ones to help understand what is going on but things change again when somebody tries to kill him.

Working with an odd mixture of associates and potential enemies Thomas realises that the answers to his questions lie in the fraud which sent him to prison eleven years ago. Driven by a rediscovered passion to clear his name, Thomas sets about investigating the original crime once again.