From the Dead
- Authors: Mark Billingham
- Series: Book 9 in the Tom Thorne series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Mystery
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- Rating: 4.3 based on 3,075 reviews
- Release Date: January 1, 2010
- Print length: 384 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Because she's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined young private investigator, to find him. DI Tom Thorne worked on the Alan Langford case, so when Carpenter brings the photo to him, he refuses to believe that the man whose body was found in a burned-out car ten years before can still be alive. But when a prison inmate that he and Anna interview is viciously murdered, Thorne starts to understand that Langford is not only alive, but ready to get rid of anyone who could threaten his comfortable new life in Spain...
Praise for From the Dead
[A] fine, well-plotted work... Billingham’s dark humor, often shot through with irony, is in full play here.
A nice mix of police procedure and chatty scenes, and some nice scenery.
Billingham’s ninth Tom Thorne thriller sees our hero working on a case in which a man long dead appears to be very much alive-to the chagrin of his wife, who had paid to ensure his expiration.
Once again, [Billingham] has written a deep police procedural with significant insights into the characters... . Written with smoothness and urbanity, the plot moves forward in unexpected ways. Recommended.
A chillingly clever criminal boosts this intelligent procedural.
Mark Billingham is a first-rate British crime writer who is too little known in this country... . The police procedural is a deceptively simple genre. You need a crime, a cop, suspects, complications and finally a solution. The art, of course, lies in the ingenuity of the crime, the depth of the characterizations and the quality of the writing. Billingham excels in all regards.
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