Broken Idol

Nikki Waters wanted to be a star. So she left her home in England, flew to Tokyo, and joined Japan’s top girl group as the lead singer. She was well on her way to fame and fortune until the night she went to her boss’s apartment and found him lying in a pool of blood. The weapon: a samurai sword.Nikki was thrown in jail, charged with murder, and forbidden to talk to anyone except the lawyer she didn’t have. Given Japan’s 99%+ conviction rate, there was nothing standing between Nikki Waters and the gallows.Nothing except Inspector Ian McLean of Scotland Yard. Forced to work undercover, can McLean and his detectives Sally Chan and Thomas McMillan rescue Nikki from the terrifying jaws of the Japanese justice system?＂Broken Idol＂ is the sixth Inspector McLean Mystery by David W. Rudlin.

David W. Rudlin is a Tokyo-based executive, author and inveterate traveller with an unshakeable conviction that the secret to happiness is eating well. Born in the US in 1958, David attended Haverford College and Oxford University before spending almost all of his adult life abroad. He has lived and/or worked in the UK, Japan, Hong Kong, China, India, Australia, South Africa, Botswana, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and half-a-dozen other exotic locales he is too lazy to pull out of the memory banks. He began writing mysteries after a decade-long career with De Beers. ＂Broken Idol＂ is his seventh book featuring Inspector Ian McLean of Scotland Yard. David and his Japanese wife Kaoru have one child, Julia, who is carrying on the family fixation with food from the canyons of New York City.