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Kein Laut dringt aus Alisons Mund, kein Muskel bewegt sich. Dennoch ist sie hellwach und versucht verzweifelt, Kontakt zu ihrer Umwelt aufzunehmen. Dieses grausame Schicksal verdankt sie einem Unbekannten, der sie betäubt und mit einem gezielten Druck auf die Halsschlagader gelähmt hat. In den Augen von Kriminalinspektor Tom Thorne hat Alison noch Glück gehabt - sie lebt. Doch als drei Frauenleichen entdeckt werden, erkennt Thorne die furchtbare Wahrheit.

El inspector Tom Thorne ha visto muchos cadáveres en su vida. Pero cuando empieza a recibir en el teléfono móvil las macabras fotos de una serie de personas asesinadas, no tarda en darse cuenta de que tal vez el siguiente cadáver sea el suyo. Incluso tras localizar al hombre que está mandando las fotos, la amenaza no desaparece. Para algunos el caso está prácticamente cerrado, aunque la pesadilla de Thorne no ha hecho más que empezar.

Polisinspektören Helen Weeks är på väg till jobbet och efter att ha lämnat sin ettårige son hos dagmamman styr hon stegen mot pendeltåget. Hon stannar som alltid till hos den lokala tidnings- och tobakshandlaren. Innehavaren Akhtar som alltid brukar bjuda på ett vänligt leende och lite småprat är inte sig lik. Han låser dörren, drar ner jalusierna och Helen Weeks och en annan kund blir kvar innanför. Han tar fram en pistol som han riktar mot dem och skriker "Shut up or I will fucking kill you!".

Ett tio år gammalt mordfall öppnas på nytt. För tio år sedan var det på alla löpsedlar, mordet på Alan Langford, en av gangsterbossarna i London. Han hittades mördad i sin Jaguar, händerna var fastlåsta vid ratten, sedan hade mördaren tänt på. Misstankarna gick snabbt i en bestämd riktning. Hustrun Donna Langford, som hatade och fruktade sin make, hade lejt en man för det delikata uppdraget att grilla Langford. Mannen greps och erkände mordet. Fallet var löst. Inga tveksamheter. Inte förrän nu.

Sechs Wochen ist es her, dass seine Frau Alex ermordet wurde. Mitleidige Blicke aber verbittet sich Detective Sergeant Declan Miller, als er früher als angekündigt wieder zum Dienst bei der Lancashire Police erscheint. Viel Zeit für Anteilnahme bleibt ohnehin nicht: Im Sands Hotel an der Küste von Blackpool werden in einer Nacht zwei Männer erschossen. Der eine kein unbeschriebenes Blatt: Adrian Cutler war der jüngste Sohn von Wayne Cutler, Anführer einer stadtbekannten Verbrecherbande. Die Identität des anderen Mannes gilt es herauszufinden.

Discover the first of the two masterful hit novels adapted for the massive new BBC One Drama series In The Dark, featuring brilliant heroine Helen Weeks. 'Clever and inventive' Financial Times Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into...

L'anticonformista detective Declan Miller è tornato al lavoro dopo che sua moglie, anche lei detective (e compagna di ballo amatoriale) è stata assassinata. Alla coppia viene affidata l'indagine su un doppio omicidio: il rampollo della famiglia malavitosa Adrian Cutler e il consulente informatico Barry Shepherd sono stati entrambi uccisi al Sands Hotel, in due stanze a pochi metri l'una dall'altra.

Der Londoner Detective Inspector Tom Thorne hat endlich alles, wonach er sich immer gesehnt hat: gute Freunde, eine liebende Partnerin an seiner Seite und Erfolg in dem Job, dem er sein Leben verschrieben hat. Doch je mehr man hat, desto mehr kann man verlieren ... Innerhalb weniger Tage werden mehrere Männer tot in ihren Betten gefunden. An allen Tatorten finden die Ermittler der Metropolitan Police zwei Weingläser, die auf einen romantischen Abend schließen lassen. Bald stellt sich heraus, dass jedes der Opfer online nach Liebe suchte – oder wenigstens nach einem Abenteuer für eine Nacht.

TOM THORNE IS BACK WITH HIS MOST SHOCKING CASE YET... ____________ 'Billingham only gets better' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'Sensational, masterful, sharp and shocking' CHRIS WHITAKER 'The best Tom Thorne novel yet' MICK HERRON 'One of crime fiction's finest' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'Billingham is on top form'...

The seventh book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. THE MESSAGE DI Tom Thorne has seen plenty of dead bodies in his time. But when he starts receiving sick photos of murder victims on his mobile phone, he soon realises that the next body could be his. THE KILLER...

The Other Half is a unique collaboration between the leading lights of mystery fiction and country music. An original story by bestselling crime writer Mark Billingham, soundtracked by the powerful and poignant songs of internationally acclaimed Americana duo My Darling Clementine. Pain, loss...

The sixteenth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. 'Hugely intelligent and authentic' BELINDA BAUER, AUTHOR OF SNAP She says she's an ordinary mother. He knows a liar when he sees one. Sarah thinks of herself as a normal single mum. It's what she wants others...

A MONSTER MURDERED It's only ten days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt. A DEADLY JUSTICE Someone knew he...

Discover the second of the two masterful hit novels adapted for the massive new BBC One Drama series In The Dark, featuring brilliant heroine Helen Weeks - continuing from number one bestseller Time of Death. 'Billingham produces an astonishing final twist' Sunday Telegraph A rainy night in...

TWO WOMEN DEAD It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. And this...

The Deal Tom Thorne is back in charge - but there's a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried twenty-five years before. But only if Thorne agrees to escort him. The Danger Unable to...

So many things that could have been different. An almost infinite number of them: the flight of the ball, the angle of the bat, the movement of his feet as he skipped down the pitch. The weather, the time, the day of the week, the whatever. The smallest variance in any one of these things or in...

When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Because she's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a...

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder... Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is later...

'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times From multi-million-copy number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a twisting, unbearably gripping DI Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner thriller inspired by a dramatic real-life case. How do you catch a killer who is yet to kill? We've all...