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Zusatztext While Billingham has well and truly mastered the modern police procedural! the thing that sets him apart from the crowd is not just his emotional insight! but the way he invariably packs such a heart-wrenching punch... Billingham's most desperately gripping read yet Informationen zum Autor 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. The eagerly awaited new Tom Thorne thriller Zusammenfassung 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 there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter! a determined young private investigator! to find him. DI Tom Thorne worked on the Alan Langford case! so when Carpenter brings the photo to him! he refuses to believe that the man whose body was found in a burned-out car ten years before can still be alive. But when a prison inmate that he and Anna interview is viciously murdered! Thorne starts to understand that Langford is not only alive! but ready to get rid of anyone who could threaten his comfortable new life in Spain...
