検索キーワード： 著者 "Mark Billingham" すべてのカテゴリー

Luke Mullen, un adolescente, no ha vuelto a casa. Sus compañeros del colegio lo vieron por última vez subiendo a un coche con una mujer, y no está claro si se ha marchado voluntariamente o ha sido secuestrado. Hijo de un ex inspector de policía, Luke carece de antecedentes de absentismo escolar o mala conducta. Los policías que buscan al muchacho tienen la firme convicción de que se trata de un secuestro. Y saben que, cuanto más tiempo pase, más probabilidades hay de que Luke aparezca muerto. Y entonces su familia recibe una cinta de vídeo.

Alison Willetts sufre la desdicha de continuar con vida. Sobrevivió a una apoplejía, provocada deliberadamente por una diestra manipulación sobre ciertos puntos sensibles de la cabeza y el cuello. Puede ver, escuchar y sentir; percibe todo lo que sucede a su alrededor, pero está totalmente incapacitada para moverse o comunicarse. La policia piensa que el asesino cometió su primer gran error al dejar a Alison Willetts con vida, pero el detective Tom Thorne descubre la horripilante realidad: el error no es el cometido con Alison, sino con las tres mujeres que ya ha asesinado.

Polisinspektören Helen Weeks är på väg till jobbet och efter att ha lämnat sin ettårige son hos dagmamman styr hon stegen mot pendeltåget. Hon stannar som alltid till hos den lokala tidnings- och tobakshandlaren. Innehavaren Akhtar som alltid brukar bjuda på ett vänligt leende och lite småprat är inte sig lik. Han låser dörren, drar ner jalusierna och Helen Weeks och en annan kund blir kvar innanför. Han tar fram en pistol som han riktar mot dem och skriker "Shut up or I will fucking kill you!".

Ett tio år gammalt mordfall öppnas på nytt. För tio år sedan var det på alla löpsedlar, mordet på Alan Langford, en av gangsterbossarna i London. Han hittades mördad i sin Jaguar, händerna var fastlåsta vid ratten, sedan hade mördaren tänt på. Misstankarna gick snabbt i en bestämd riktning. Hustrun Donna Langford, som hatade och fruktade sin make, hade lejt en man för det delikata uppdraget att grilla Langford. Mannen greps och erkände mordet. Fallet var löst. Inga tveksamheter. Inte förrän nu.

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....

It's 1996. Detective Sergeant Tom Thorne is a haunted man. Haunted by the moment he ignored his instinct about a suspect, by the horrific crime that followed and by the memories that come day and night, in sunshine and shadow. So when seven-year-old Kieron Coyne goes missing while playing in the woods with his best friend, Thorne vows he will not make the same mistake again. Cannot. The solitary witness. The strange neighbour. The friendly teacher. All are in Thorne's sights. This case will be the making of him...or the breaking.

A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister.... One life is wiped out, and three more are changed forever: the young man whose finger was on the trigger, an aging gangster planning a deadly revenge and the pregnant woman who struggles desperately to uncover the truth. Two weeks away from giving birth, how will she deal with a world where death is an occupational hazard?

It's only 10 days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt. Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishment of his own. And when a second sex offender is found dead, DI Tom Thorne knows he has a vicious, calculating vigilante on his hands.

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. 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....

Alison Willetts has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel, but she is completely unable to move or communicate. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake. Then DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth: it isn't Alison who is the mistake, it's the three women already dead. Thorne must find a killer whose agenda is disturbingly unique, and Alison, the one person who holds the key to the killer's identity, is unable to say anything....

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.

So many things that could have been different. An almost infinite number of them: the flight of the ball, the angle of the bat, the movement of his feet as he skipped down the pitch. The weather, the time, the day of the week, the whatever. The smallest variance in any one of these things or in the way that each connected to the other at the crucial moment and nothing would have happened as it did. An inch another way or a second or a step and it would have been a very different story.

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Three men, sleeping rough on London's mean streets, have been found brutally murdered - each victim kicked to death and found with a £20 note pinned to his chest. But were they killed at random, or were they targeted for a reason? Tom Thorne is posted to the same streets - working undercover, disguised as a homeless man. In a harsh and harrowing underworld, Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a 15-year-old atrocity. Those who know are keeping quiet. But the word on these streets is that the killer is a cop....

The targeted murder of four officers is only the first in a series of attacks that leaves police scared, angry, and, most disturbingly of all, vengeful. As Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner dig into the reasons for the violence, a deeper darkness begins to emerge: the possibility that these murders are payback. The price paid for an unspeakable betrayal.

Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase...containing a pair of severed hands. Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne'er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife's death. Now Miller has leverage, but unfortunately he also has something that both Cutler and a villainous fast-food kingpin are desperate to get hold of.

Tom Thorne znalazl sie na dnie. Pograzony w depresji po smierci ojca inspektor zostaje przeniesiony do pracy biurowej, jego kariera zalamuje sie. Kiedy w Londynie zaczynaja ginac bezdomni, Thorne zglasza sie na ochotnika, by wejsc jako tajniak w ich srodowisko. Szybko, moze nawet za szybko, staje sie jednym z nich. Na ulicach miasta doswiadcza strachu, glodu, zimna i biedy. Poznaje pare mlodych narkomanów i pomimo gry, jaka z nimi prowadzi, i ich pragmatycznej brutalnosci, przyjazn tej trójki wydaje sie szczera.

16-letni Luke Mullen byl widziany po raz ostatni, jak wsiadal do samochodu ze starsza od siebie kobieta. Nikt nie wie, dlaczego zostal porwany. Jego ojciec, byly nadinspektor policji, wie tylko, ze im dluzej trwa sledztwo, tym mniejsze sa szanse, ze jego syn zostanie odnaleziony zywy. Rodzice Luke’a otrzymuja niepokojace nagranie, na którym on z przerazeniem patrzy, jak ktos podchodzi do niego ze strzykawka w dloni. Inspektor Thorne potrafi rozpoznac psychopate na pierwszy rzut oka. A nagranie na tasmie zmrozilo mu krew w zylach. Wie, ze zycie chlopca wisi na wlosku i ze liczy sie kazda minuta.

Deszczowa noc w Londynie. Z jadącego z wyłączonymi światłami auta padają strzały do nadjeżdżającego z przeciwka samochodu, który gwałtownie skręca i wjeżdża na wysepkę przystanku autobusowego. Inicjacja nowego członka gangu kończy się śmiercią niewinnego człowieka. Tak się przynajmniej wydaje. Ale prawda jest o wiele bardziej mroczna i złowieszcza.

Het eerste slachtoffer , een man van in de veertig, was bijna een maand geleden vermoord in een steeg bij Golden square. Tot nu toe had niemand kunnen achterhalen wij hij was. Korte tijd later werden er nog twee mannen vermoord. Alle drie waren ze dakloos en werden ze met buitensporig geweld doodgeschopt. Er zat een briefje van 20 pond op hun borst gespeld.