Dark corners

"A story set in London of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one man's spiral into darkness as he falls victim to a diabolical foe he cannot escape"--

When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in a rich and trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, and rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping his father's bizarre collection of homeopathic "cures" that he found in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills. Mistake number three was selling fifty of those diet pills to a friend, who is then found dead. Dermot seizes a nefarious opportunity and begins to blackmail Carl, refusing to pay rent, and invading Carl's space.