by Mark Billingham (Author)
Someone - a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman - is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children, now adults and nowhere to be found...How can you escape a past that will do a lot more than just catch up with you? And how can Thorne catch a killer, when he doesn't really care about the victims?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 25 Mar 2004
ISBN 10: 0751534277
ISBN 13: 9780751534276
Book Overview: Years after they'd committed their crimes and served their sentences, rapists are turning up dead in hotel rooms. Some people might believe the killings have a positive effect on re-offending rates, but Detective Inspector Thorne knows he has to track down the murderer.
Prizes: Winner of Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2005.