Mark Billingham
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When DI Tom Thorne is called to conduct a routine assessment at the site of a suicide, he expects to be in and out in no time. But when he arrives at the metro station, where a woman named Philippa Goodwin threw herself in front of an underground train, Thorne inexplicably senses something awry and feels compelled to dig deeper. He soon discovers that she was the victim of a callous con-man who preys on vulnerable women, and whose deception plunged...
4) Buried
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Thorne finally has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. His love life is newly reformed by a promising relationship and he is happy in the job he has devoted his life to. As he sets off hunting the woman responsible for a series of grisly murders, Thorne has no way of knowing that he will be plunged into a nightmare from which he may never wake. A nightmare that has a name. Thorne's past threatens...
6) The demands
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 10
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother who is a detective. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues.
7) Rabbit hole
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she doesn't really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in the ward despite their challenging and often intimidating issues. So...
8) Lifeless
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 5
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Struggling to adjust back to a life in service to the queen after 25 years as a detective, Tom Thorne is forced to work alone when he pursues suspicions that a spate of elderly suicides are more sinister, a case that estranges him from his colleagues and places his life at risk.
10) Bloodline
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 8
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A murderer is targeting the children of victims of an infamous serial killer from London's past and Murder Squad veteran Detective Tom Thorne finds he's dealing with one of the most twisted killers he has ever hunted.
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 7
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Just as his love life hits the rocks and he must investigate Turkish gangs, Tom Thorne begins to receive blurred photos of dead men on his cell phone, murders connected to a psychopath just released from prison.
12) Cry baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1996, two boys run from a playground into the adjoining woods, but only one comes out. DS Tom Thorne takes on a case that quickly spirals out of control when two people connected with the missing boy are murdered. As London prepares to host the European soccer championships, Thorne fights to keep on top of a baffling investigation while also dealing with the ugly fallout of his broken marriage. A prequel to Billingham's acclaimed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From "one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today" (Gillian Flynn), The Killing Habit again brings together favorite wild-card detective Tom Thorne and straight-laced DI Nicola Tanner on a pair of lethally high-stakes cases. While DI Nicola Tanner investigates the deadly spread of a dangerous new drug, Tom Thorne is handed a case that he doesn't take too seriously, until a spate of animal killings points to the...
14) The burning girl
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
15) Love like blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham's riveting new novel Love Like Blood marks the return of series character Tom Thorne, "the next superstar detective" (Lee Child), as he pairs up with perfectionist detective inspector Nicola Tanner of Die of Shame on an investigation that ventures into politically sensitive territory. DI Nicola Tanner needs Tom Thorne's help. Her partner, Susan, has been brutally murdered and Tanner is convinced...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tom Thorne is on holiday with his girlfriend DS Helen Weeks, when two girls are abducted in Helen?s home town. When a body is discovered and a man is arrested, Helen recognizes the suspect?s wife as an old school-friend and returns home for the first time in twenty-five years to lend her support. As his partner faces up to a past she has tried desperately to forget and a media storm engulfs the town, Thorne becomes convinced that, despite overwhelming...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The Bones Beneath, the twelfth novel in the internationally bestselling Tom Thorne series shows Thorne facing perhaps the most dangerous killer he has ever put away, Stuart Nicklin. When Nicklin announces that he wishes to reveal the whereabouts of one of his earliest victims and that he wants the cop who caught him to be there when he does it, it becomes clear that Thorne's life is about to become seriously unpleasant. Thorne is forced to accompany...
19) Die of shame
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about addiction. There they share their deepest secrets: stories of lies, regret, and above all, shame. Then one of them is killed - and it's clear one of the circle was responsible. Detective Inspector Nicola Tanner quickly finds her investigation hampered by the strict confidentiality that binds these people and their therapist together. So what could be shameful enough...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy strikes: the fourteen-year-old daughter of an American vacationer goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked couples return home to the U.K., they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one...