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...
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 new series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death will be broadcast on BBC1 in 2017. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.
Title: Lifeless: The Tom Thorne Novels: Book Five
Author: Mark Billingham
ISBN: 9780751548815
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Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date: 2012-03-01
Number of Pages: 512
Weight: 0.3993 kg
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