Two times, one an escape the other the ending gave me this kind of pause. Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2020, Love this guy. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 1, 2017. But from the ace medical examiner who sports an extra facial piercing for each new boyfriend to a pair of vividly imagined killers, the supporting cast is spot-on as well. In the first book I was quite gripped, but with this one the first quarter of the book seemed to be quite hard going. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Billingham is adept at creating believable characters with ordinary and not-so-ordinary personal problems, then weaving them into the plot in surprising ways. And you thought London was a safe city??? *FREE* shipping on eligible orders. Can he save the next young victim and make it out alive? Mark Billingham's Detective Tom Thorne is one of the best characters you will read. A brilliant detective, haunted by his mother’s murder, must stop a vicious new killer. ... A Gritty Crim... Mark Billingham is one of England's best known and top-selling crime writers. A killer is hunting a blind boy who witnessed a murder. Please try again. Tom Thorne offers a twist on the serial killer subgenre. Thorne, so blinded by his zeal to crack the case that he'll offhandedly humiliate a supportive supervisor to get his risky plans approved, is the strongest of the lot. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I’m also quite fond of his colleague Holland, and in this book we see more of him than in book 1. Billingham has plotted a crime thriller worthy of the genre, and planted enough red herrings to keep the reader hooked to the final chapter. It flits between past and present, but does so in a manner that is easy to follow. Obviously having a great time, Billingham releases a small school of herring to keep mystery-solving readers in a pickle. Addictive. An evil killer spiraling out of control. It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. I read thrillers and crime stories, lots of them, and it was a joy to discover a new author (to me) with an extensive backlist. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This was my second Billingham mystery, the first being Sleepyhead. Okay so I know this is only my second Thorne book, but in comparison to the first book this one didn’t have as much, shall we say shine, as the first one. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. But that's good and makes the reading experience that much more enjoyable. Narrator Simon Prebble gives an electric performance that is excellently paced. If you enjoy a good detective series then look at this. Billingham's plots are fairly complex and sometimes I have to pause for a few moments to work out exactly how this particular thread fits in with the story so far.

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