Tom Thorne Série

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Spící oběť
Mark Billingham
3,9(327)Ohodnotit
Ve městě začala řádit bestie, která nechce, aby její oběti žily — ale ani aby zemřely. První tři ženy, které si vrah vybral, skončily mrtvé. Čtvrtou nepotkalo takové štěstí… Alison Willetsová vyšla ze setkání s brutálním psychopatem živá, ale neschopná pohybu či komunikace. Policie zprvu usuzuje, že se vrah dopustil první chyby, když nechal Alison naživu, ale pak inspektor Thorne objeví hrůznou pravdu: že pro pachatele byly nezdarem ony tři mrtvé ženy — a že ve svém zvrhlém jednání hodlá pokračovat. Thorne se pouští do nelehkého honu na muže, který je ve své zrůdnosti naprosto nevyzpytatelný a hraje si s ním jako kočka s myší. A Alison Willetsová, jediná osoba, která zná klíč k zabijákově identitě, Thorneovi v pátrání pomoci nemůže…
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Zbabělec
Mark Billingham
4,0(7280)Ohodnotit
První oběť sledoval vrah z nádraží až domů a tam ji uškrtil před očima jejího dítěte. Tentýž den byla nalezena mrtvola druhé ženy, usmrcené stejným způsobem. Inspektor Thorne brzy zjišťuje skutečnost, že pachatelé jsou dva. Jeden zabíjí s chladnou myslí, druhý jako by byl posedlý šílenstvím – a touhou napodobit svůj morbidní vzor. Thorne pochopí, že se musí při pátrání zaměřit na brutálnější polovinu vražedné dvojice a do té doby, než pachatele dopadne, musí žít s mučivou jistotou, že každá další nalezená mrtvola bude někde mít věrnou kopii…
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Lenoch
Mark Billingham
4,1(4957)Ohodnotit
V ošuntělém hotýlku na severu Londýna byla nalezena mrtvola.Tou obětí byl muž, který byl před pouhými deseti dny propuštěný z vězení, kde si odpykával trest za sexuální zločiny. Někdo nad ním vynesl a vykonal vlastní trest. Vrah vskutku neponechal nic náhodě – dokonce pro svou oběť objednal pohřební věnec... Když je krátce poté nalezeno zmasakrované tělo dalšího sexuálního násilníka, policie dochází k přesvědčení, že vraždil stejný člověk. Svůj akt pomsty měl zjevně promyšlený do posledního detailu a v jeho uskutečnění mu nemohlo nic zabránit. Jak ovšem vrah přilákal své oběti na místo, kde na ně čekala krutá smrt? S kým se tam ti muži vlastně chtěli sejít? Policisté naráží na hradbu neodbytných otázek – a pak naleznou svazek dopisů...
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The Burning Girl
Mark Billingham
3,9(4875)Ohodnotit
Jessica Clarke had been set alight twenty years ago. Her attacker, quickly tracked down and eager to confess, was still in jail, his career as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer in that case, and claiming that he is the one who burned the girl? Now retired, Carol turns to DI Tom Thorne for help. He's up to his neck in an investigation into a series of killings, which appears to be the result of a turf war between rival gangs, and he's fed up to the gills with reporting to DCI Tughan, so helping Carol out looks like a good deed in a naughty world. Only the world is about to turn much nastier, so nasty in fact that he finds himself longing for a straightforward psycopath to hunt down. In Mark Billingham's fourth novel, he explores the effects of violence and greed on the lives of those who exploit their fellow beings in a novel of exceptional power.
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Lifeless
Mark Billingham
480 stránek
17 hodin čtení
4,0(6930)Ohodnotit
It appears that someone is targeting London's homeless community so DI Tom Thorne goes undercover amongst them. The information he gleans is that this is no random killer, it is someone with a specific list of victims.
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Buried
Mark Billingham
416 stránek
15 hodin čtení
3,9(3235)Ohodnotit
The fashion in which Mark Billingham has climbed his way to the top of the British crime writing fraternity should cause no one any surprise. His secret is simple: Billingham's work is always utterly reliable, delivering gritty and authoritative crime fiction writing in which the sense of locale is always spot-on. Here, DI Tom Thorne is asked to help in the case of a teenage boy who has disappeared. He is the son of a once high-ranking police officer (now retired), and Thorne's first endeavour is to ask the father, ex DCI Mullen, to draw up a list of all those in his past who might have reason to hold a grudge. But then Thorne discovers that there is an omission from the list: a man who has made serious threats to Mullen and his family. And as Billingham's beleaguered hero strains every sinew to track down the boy before he is killed, he has to find out why his ex-police colleague has lied to him. As so often before with Billingham, it's the steady accumulation of disturbing detail that makes this novel so compelling. The author eschews easy thrills, and prefers to involve the reader at a more realistic pace. This is not to say that the book lacks excitement (even Billingham's enemies could hardly accuse him of that), but just that the tension is dispensed in a way that never seems meretricious. Another solid entry in the growing Tom Thorne canon.
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Death message
Mark Billingham
458 stránek
17 hodin čtení
3,7(220)Ohodnotit
When Detective Tom Thorne starts to receive cellphone photos of murder victims, it takes him a while to identify them and to figure out who the probable killer would be. But the man has been in prison since Thorne put him there.
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Bloodline
Mark Billingham
4,0(276)Ohodnotit
The eighth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead. When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, Thorne has a macabre jigsaw to piece together until the horrifying picture finally emerges. A killer is targeting the children of Raymond Garvey's victims. Thorne must move quickly to protect those still on the murderer's list, but nothing and nobody are what they seem. Not when Thorne is dealing with one of the most twisted killers he has ever hunted... ________________ The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is out now!
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From the Dead
Mark Billingham
496 stránek
18 hodin čtení
4,0(3124)Ohodnotit
The ninth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. It has been a decade since Alan Langford's charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife Donna was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and served ten years in prison. But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband. The man she hates with every fibre of her being - the man she paid to have murdered - seems very much alive and well. How is it possible that her husband is still alive? Where is he? Who sent the photo, and why? DI Tom Thorne becomes involved in a case where nothing and no one are what they seem. It will take him much further from his London beat than he has ever been before - and closer to a killer who will do anything to protect his new life. ________________ The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is out now!
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Good As Dead
Mark Billingham
520 stránek
19 hodin čtení
4,1(3369)Ohodnotit
The tenth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. 'Billingham's most desperately gripping read yet' Daily Mirror Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagents on her way to work. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but she is about to come face to face with a gunman. The hostage-taker is desperate to know what happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding Helen at gunpoint, he will force a re-investigation into his son's death. And one man knows the case better than any other - DI Tom Thorne. As the body count rises, Thorne must race against time to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life. Taking place over three action-packed days, this is the fastest and most surprising Thorne thriller yet from Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham. 'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times 'A new Mark Billingham is always a treat' Susie Steiner ________________ The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is out now!
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The Dying Hours
Mark Billingham
498 stránek
18 hodin čtení
4,0(252)Ohodnotit
A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Such things are not unknown and the deaths are quickly dismissed by the police as routine. Only one man is convinced that something more sinister is taking place.However, no one listens to Tom Thorne anymore. Having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform and he hates it. Patronised and abused by his new colleagues, Thorne's suspicions about the suicides are dismissed by the Murder Squad he was once part of and he is forced to investigate alone.Unable to trust anyone, Thorne must risk losing those closest to him. He must gamble with the lives of those targeted by a killer unlike any he has hunted before. A man with nothing to lose and a growing list of victims. A man with the power to make people take their own lives. Tom Thorne returns in Billingham's most compelling thriller to date. The Dying Hours is a haunting portrait of London's dark heart, and the darker heart of a twisted killer bringing terror to its streets.
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The Bones Beneath
Mark Billingham
469 stránek
17 hodin čtení
3,7(151)Ohodnotit
The Deal Tom Thorne is back in charge - but there's a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried twenty-five years before. But only if Thorne agrees to escort him. The Danger Unable to refuse, Thorne gathers a team and travels to a remote Welsh island, at the mercy of the weather and cut off from the mainland. Thorne is determined to get the job done and return home before Nicklin can outwit them. The Deaths But Nicklin knows this island well and has had time to plan ahead. Soon, new bodies are added to the old, and Thorne finds himself facing the toughest decision he has ever had to make...Tom Thorne returns in this utterly gripping, brilliantly plotted thriller. The Bones Beneath is Mark Billingham's most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
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Time of Death
Mark Billingham
538 stránek
19 hodin čtení
4,0(254)Ohodnotit
The astonishing thirteenth Tom Thorne novel is a story of kidnapping, the tabloid press, and a frightening case of mistaken identity. Tom Thorne is on holiday with his girlfriend DS Helen Weeks, when two girls are abducted in Helen s home town. When a body is discovered and a man is arrested, Helen recognizes the suspect s wife as an old school-friend and returns home for the first time in twenty-five years to lend her support. As his partner faces up to a past she has tried desperately to forget and a media storm engulfs the town, Thorne becomes convinced that, despite overwhelming evidence of his guilt, the police have got the wrong man. There is still an extremely clever and killer on the loose and a missing girl who Thorne believes might still be alive."
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Love like blood
Mark Billingham
518 stránek
19 hodin čtení
4,1(1814)Ohodnotit
'Groundbreaking and gripping'Sunday Times A BLOODY MESSAGE As DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner Susan is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft, and vengeful. A POWERFUL ALLY Taken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts. A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE As the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world in which families will do anything to protect their honour. From number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real. ________________ 'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times 'Billingham is a world-class writer' Karin Slaughter
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The Killing Habit
Mark Billingham
560 stránek
20 hodin čtení
4,0(1517)Ohodnotit
'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 unconventionalliterary 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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Their Little Secret
Mark Billingham
512 stránek
18 hodin čtení
4,0(2427)Ohodnotit
The sixteenth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. 'Hugely intelligent and authentic' BELINDA BAUER, AUTHOR OF SNAP She says she's an ordinary mother. He knows a liar when he sees one. Sarah thinks of herself as a normal single mum. It's what she wants others to think of her. But the truth is, she needs something new, something thrilling. Meanwhile, DI Tom Thorne is investigating a woman's suicide, convinced she was driven to do it by a man who preys on vulnerable women. A man who is about to change Sarah's life. From number one, five-million-copy bestseller Mark Billingham comes a breathless new thriller starring Thorne and Tanner that readers will devour. PRAISE FOR MARK BILLINGHAM 'One of the great series of British crime fiction' THE TIMES 'An unconventional literary superstar' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Billingham is a world-class writer' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'A new Mark Billingham is always a treat' SUSIE STEINER 'Finely paced and polished procedural, with twists and turns galore' CARA HUNTER 'Perfectly executed and with a thoroughly unnerving twist' GUARDIAN 'Thorne is a terrific invention' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Mark Billingham gets better and better' MICHAEL CONNELLY
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Cry Baby
Mark Billingham
512 stránek
18 hodin čtení
4,0(2062)Ohodnotit
Two boys run into the woods--but only one returns-- In the summer of 1996, two boys run from a playground into the adjoining woods, but only one comes out. DS Tom Thorne takes on the case--which quickly spirals out of control when two people connected to the missing boy are murdered. As London prepares to host the European Soccer Championships, Thorne fights to keep on top of a baffling investigation while also dealing with the ugly fallout of his broken marriage . . .