The Button Man, Mark Pryor

Before Hugo Marston became head of security at the US embassy in Paris, he held the same position in London. He’s trying to convince his wife to leave Texas and come to London, and the negotiations are not going well. Now he’s been saddled with two Hollywood movie stars, Ginny Ferro and Dylan Harper who, while filming a movie in a rural English village, accidently ran over a local man but drove away, leaving him to die. 

The press and the public are baying for the couples’ blood, but they are not the only ones. A self-styled vigilante has them in his sights. Ferro is released first and promptly vanishes only to show up hours later, hanged in a graveyard. A grieving Dylan Harper gives Hugo the slip, sending the Texan on a star hunt, assisted and hindered by a star struck member of parliament, obstructive journalists and the lovely and resourceful Merlyn. As the bodies pile up and local law enforcement refuses to budge Hugo cuts through the red tape and goes it alone, which is just what the killer was waiting for him to do…