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The fifteenth book featuring the irascible Thorne and Billingham continues to show he's one of the greats in British crime fiction. So well researched, each book in the series is always so incredibly real as you follow Thorne and his colleagues on their investigative journey. DI Nicola Tanner is back again in The Killing Habit when pets start disappearing on suburban London streets, Thorne recognises the traits of a psychopath and sees a chance to stop a future murderer. A book you want to savour as you don't want it to end, but you can't help but fly through. When is number sixteen out please?
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The Killing Habit Synopsis
'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times From multi-million-copy number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a twisting, unbearably gripping DI Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner thriller inspired by a dramatic real-life case. How do you catch a killer who is yet to kill? We've all heard about the signs: coldness, cruelty, lack of empathy. DI Tom Thorne knows the psychological profile of a psychopath all too well, so when pets start disappearing on suburban London streets, he sees a chance to stop a future murderer. Others are less convinced, so Thorne relies on DI Nicola Tanner to help him solve the case, before the culprit starts hunting people. The journey brings them face to face with a killer who will tear their lives apart. ---------- 'A new Mark Billingham is always a treat and The Killing Habit hurls the reader straight into the action. Thoroughly enjoyable for being so very real' SUSIE STEINER 'Mark Billingham on superb form. A finely paced and polished procedural, with twists and turns galore and an ending that will chill your soul' CARA HUNTER 'An unconventional literary superstar' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'As ever with Billingham, a rich cast of characters and tense situations are marshalled with panache, leading to a final terrifying encounter' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Thorne is a terrific invention' IRISH INDEPENDENT
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Want something to get the heart racing as you laze by the pool?...A thrilling read not for the faint-hearted - Sun
The strength of the DI Thorne novels is in the knowledge that all of this could be real. The closing of the novel will please even the most discerning fan of the police procedural, and leave you yearning for more. - Crime Fiction Lover
Thorne is a terrific invention - Irish Independent
Entertaining, thought provoking and current - West Australian
As ever with Billingham, a rich cast of characters and tense situations are marshalled with panache, leading to a final terrifying encounter - Financial Times
An unconventional literary superstar - Mail on Sunday
Mark Billingham on superb form. A finely paced and polished procedural, with twists and turns galore and an ending that will chill your soul. - Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home
A new Mark Billingham is always a treat and The Killing Habit hurls the reader straight into the action. Thoroughly enjoyable for being so very real. - Susie Steiner, author of Missing, Presumed and Persons Unknown
One of the great series of British crime fiction - The Times
Another tough but utterly intriguing entry in one of the best British police detective series going - Winnipeg Free Press
About Mark Billingham
Mark Billingham has been awarded the 2003 Sherlock Award as the creator of the Best Detective created by a British writer and has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier prize for best novel of the year.
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.
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Maxim Jakubowski's view on DI TOM THORNE...
A dogged London cop whose beat somehow invariably crosses into the dark side and confronts evil at its cleverest.DEATH MESSAGE is the 7th in the series, and BLOOD LINE appears in August 2009.
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