The 8th in this excellent London based crime series and its comes out just as books get the TV treatment in ‘D I Thorne’ staring David Morrissey. In From the Dead a woman, jailed for 10 years for the murder of her husband, gets sent a photo that clearly shows he didn’t perish in a flaming car wreck. And he is deadly determined to stop anyone discovering the truth.
AUDIO SYNOPSIS Duration: 11h 30m (approx.) on 10 CD(s)
Narrated by Paul Thornley
When Donna Langford receives a recent photo of her ex-husband she gets the shock of her life: she's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. After seeing the photo himself, DI Tom Thorne refuses to believe the man is still alive. Then a prison inmate Thorne interviews is murdered, and he starts to understand that Langford is alive and ready to kill anyone who could threaten his new life...
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.