Left for Dead by Diane Langford

Montse Letkin works for the council. She's what you might call a snooper. Montse is getting so good at her job that her boss Gwendoline Rhodes - that's the one they used to call Red Gwen - has lined Montse up as her personal security consultant. Montse wasn't so good at that though - Gwendoline fell out of a high window. And it would suit a lot of people if Montse took the rap.
In Montse Letkin, Diane Langford has created a true heroine for our times, a bruised and cynical young woman learning the hard way that the personal really is political.
Left For Dead is a taut, subversive London thriller set about ten minutes into the future. In a city where privatisation is the watchword and politics a dirty word. In a city where the weak and the homeless had best fend for themselves. In a city of secrets and lies. The legacies of the past collide in this unsettling, visionary slice of millennial noir.