Lifeless (Tom Thorne Novels)

Lifeless (Tom Thorne Novels)

by Mark Billingham (Author)

Synopsis

A SERIES OF KILLINGS
Three men, sleeping rough on London's mean streets, have been found brutally murdered - each victim kicked to death and found with a GBP20 note pinned to his chest. But were they killed at random, or were they targeted for a reason?
A DEADLY MISSION
Tom Thorne is posted to the same streets - working undercover, disguised as a homeless man. In a harsh and harrowing underworld, Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a fifteen-year-old atrocity.
A RUTHLESS ENEMY
Those who know are keeping quiet. But the word on these streets is that the killer is a cop...

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 01 Mar 2012

ISBN 10: 0751548812
ISBN 13: 9780751548815
Book Overview: A relentless and utterly compelling Tom Thorne thriller

Media Reviews
Complex, thought-provoking and, in parts, very funny ... a tour de force Observer Murder and mystery do not come better than this What's on in London Assured and shocking thriller The Guardian A cunning variation on the serial-murder theme Sunday Telegraph
Author Bio
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.