Love Like Blood (Tom Thorne Novels) - Hardcover

Billingham, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0751566888 ISBN 13: 9780751566888

Verlag: Little, Brown, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

From number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real.'Groundbreaking and gripping'Sunday TimesA BLOODY MESSAGEAs DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner Susan is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft, and vengeful.A POWERFUL ALLYTaken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts.A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCEAs the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world in which families will do anything to protect their honour.

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Críticas:

His [Billingham's] storylines of murders that go unseen or unrecognised are chilling and moving, and Tom Thorne is on terrific form (The Times)

Groundbreaking ... a gripping, unsensational take on a type of crime that is happening more frequently than many of us realise (Sunday Times)

[A] sensitive topic delicately handled, with a perfectly executed and thoroughly unnerving twist at the end (The Guardian)

Irascible, irritating and indefatigable...Billingham's passionate depiction of the injustice and brutality that flow from these killings spills from every page, making this one of his most powerful crime novels, written with a fury that does both him and Thorne justice (Daily Mail)

Brilliant and unbearable (Independent)

Entertaining, thought provoking and current (West Australian)

The author's rage, combined with his skill as a crime writer, makes this a gripping and genuinely tragic story (Literary Review)

Shocking and topical, the 14th book in the Thorne series is an engaging thriller from one of Britain's best crime writers (Daily Express)

Brave, topical, important and as uncomfortable to read as it is impossible not to (Heat)

Want something to get the heart racing as you laze by the pool?...A thrilling read not for the faint-hearted (Sun)

Biografía del autor:

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.

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• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0751566888
• ISBN 13: 9780751566888
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432