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Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder.... Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked couples return home, they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better.

A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Such things are not unknown to the police 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.

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.

Newly demoted after stepping out of line once too often, and struggling to adjust, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes convinced that a spate of suicides among the elderly in London is something more sinister. His concerns are dismissed by the murder squad he was once part of and he is forced to investigate alone. Now, unable to trust anybody, Thorne risks losing those closest to him as well as endangering those being targeted by a killer unlike any he has hunted before: a man with nothing to lose and a growing list of victims.

It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at London's 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. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day.

In The Bones Beneath, the latest addition to the internationally best-selling Tom Thorne series, Thorne once again must confront Stuart Nicklin, a master manipulator and ruthless murderer. When Nicklin announces that he wishes to reveal the whereabouts of one of his earliest victims and that he wants the cop who caught him to be there when he does it, it becomes clear that Thorne's life is about to become seriously unpleasant. Thorne is forced to accompany Nicklin to a remote island off the Welsh coast which is cut off from the mainland in every sense.

Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel and is aware of everything going on around her, but is completely unable to move or communicate. Her condition is called Locked-In Syndrome.

The Hostage. Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman. The Demand. The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody.

Full of betrayal, deceit and suspense, Die of Shame is the spectacular new book from number-one best seller Mark Billingham - author of Time of Death and In the Dark, both soon to be major BBC series. Every Monday evening six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about addiction. There they share their deepest secrets: stories of lies, regret and, above all, shame. Then one of them is killed - and it's clear one of the circle was responsible.

Someone, a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman, is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children, now adults and nowhere to be found. How can you escape a past that will do a lot more than just catch up with you?

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. 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. 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.

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 25 years before. But only if Thorne agrees to escort him. 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.

In a vicious, calculated murder, a victim is selected at Euston Station, followed home, and strangled in front of her child. When a second body is discovered, killed in the same way at King's Cross station, DI Tom Thorne comes to a horrifying conclusion: this is not one killer, but two.

It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke, and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable damage to the ligaments in her neck, and their cause of death is changed from 'natural' to 'murder'.

From number one best seller 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 all know the signs. Cruelty, lack of empathy, the killing of animals. Now, pets on suburban London streets are being stalked by a shadow, and it could just be the start. DI Tom Thorne knows the psychological profile of such offenders all too well.

En död kvinnokropp hittas i en lägenhet i norra London. Det märkliga är att i den dödas hand finner kriminalkommissarie Tom Thorne blodstänkta plastbitar som tycks komma från en röntgenbild. Ännu märkligare blir det när det visar sig att även offrets mamma har mördats, men för femton år sedan, och då av seriemördaren Raymond Garvey. Sju kvinnor miste livet för hans hand i ett av stadens mest uppmärksammade rättsfall.

Kriminalkommissarie Tom Thorne har sett många lik i sina dagar. Men när han börjar få hotfulla meddelanden och vidriga foton av döda människor skickade till sin mobiltelefon har en gräns passerats. Thorne inser att han har att göra med en extremt farlig mördare och att han själv svävar i fara. Polisen söker desperat efter en koppling mellan Thorne och avsändaren. Ingen förstår varför mördaren vänder sig just till honom. Det tycks vara personligt - någon vill säga honom något. Till sist blir det Thorne själv som pusslar ihop ledtrådarna.

Det förflutna går ej att begrava. Sextonårige Luke Mullen är försvunnen. Senast sågs han av sina skolkamrater när han steg in i en bil med en äldre kvinna bakom ratten. De är oklart om hans försvinnande är frivilligt eller om han förts bort. Polisen är övertygad om att de har med en kidnappning att göra. Luke är son till ett högre polisbefäl och har en stabil bakgrund. Det finns inga spår av dåligt uppförande, psykiska problem eller missförhållanden. Polisen är väl medveten om att ju längre tiden går, desto mer troligt är det att Luke kommer att hittas död.

En del liv är mindre värdefulla än andra Det ser ut som om karriären är över för kriminalkommissarie Tom Thorne. Han är deprimerad sedan faderns död, kritiserad för att ha överträtt sina befogenheter i sin senaste mordutredning. Hans frivilliga tjänstledighet är en kort och gott odräglig tillvaro för en ambitiös polis. Men inte så odräglig som den är för Londons hemlösa. Tre män hittas mördade med en tjugopundsedel fastnitad vid bröstet. Är dessa män endast några alkoholister, drogmissbrukare och utstött? Eller ligger det något annat bakom morden?

För tjugo år sedan stod den unga Jessica Clarke och pratade med några kamrater utanför skolan. Plötsligt rusade en okänd man fram, dränkte in henne med tändvätska och satte eld. Jessica överlevde, men frågan är om det inte hade varit skonsammare att få dö. För sedan dess har hennes liv varit fyllt av outhärdliga plågor, ångest och isolering. För Carol Chamberlain som var ansvarig polis vid tillfället är fallet sedan länge ett avslutat kapitel. Gordon Rooker, ökänd yrkesmördare i Londons undre värld, erkände genast och dömdes till ett långt fängelsestraff.