The second book in the DI Tom Thorne series, Scaredy Cat is the one that got me hooked. The irascible Thorne is compelling to "watch" as he leads his team to try and solve a grisly set of murders, whatever it takes. A young mother is murdered in front of her son and another young woman follows soon after.
We start to see the bond between Thorne and his colleagues - Sergeant Dave Holland and his long time friend pathologist Dave Hendricks - and you can't help but want for more. He's a good cop in his reckless way, and Billingham plays it well in terms of presenting the good, the bag and the ugly of Thorne. A master of suspense, Billingham has my attention and I'm dying to read more.
It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. And this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day.
TWO KILLERS WORKING TOGETHER
It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them - and two killers are way more deadly than one . . .
Murder and mystery do not come better than this What's on in London
Brisk, racy read The Times
Assured and shocking thriller The Guardian
A cunning variation on the serial-murder theme Sunday Telegraph
Author
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.
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.
TWO WOMEN DEAD It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child.
Scaredy Cat features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Fiction
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Scaredy Cat was written by Mark Billingham and published by Sphere an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
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