1 - Sleepyhead Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne [1]: EDITORIAL REVIEW: It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's bl...
2 - Scaredy cat Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne [2]: It is almost unthinkable that a single maniac would murder two women miles apart on the same day. Yet someone followed Carol Garner home from the train station and strangled her to death in front of her three-year-old son. And, afterw...
3 - Lazybones Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne [3]: Thorne knew when he was looking at something out of the ordinary. This was a significant murder scene. This was the work of a killer driven by something special, something spectacular ... He looked at the dead man on the bed -- the po...
4 - The Burning Girl Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne [4]: A contract killer is carving his way through North London's criminal underworld, leaving a bloody X on his victims' backs and taking Billy Ryan's gang down one thug at a time. Detective Inspector Tom Thorne and his team know there's a...
5 - Lifeless Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne [5]: To his friends, his foes and even to himself it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. On his last case he had seriously over-stepped the mark, and now gardening leave has been suggested and all he has to tend is a windo...
6 - Buried Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne [6]: Luke Mullen, sixteen-year-old son of a former high-ranking police officer, has disappeared, presumed kidnapped. While no-one quite dares to voice the fear that he could also be presumed dead, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is brought ...
7 - Death Message Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne [7]: The first message sent to Tom Thorne's mobile phone was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne had seen enough dead bodies in his time to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the phot...
8 - Bloodline Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne [8]: Night and day, country music lover Detective Tom Thorne is on call to solve the most difficult crimes. It's a schedule that has pushed his fragile relationship with his girlfriend to the breaking point. In an attempt to avoid becoming...
9 - From the Dead Mark Billingham
Tom Thorne [9]: 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 the...
