Good as Dead
- Authors: Mark Billingham
- Series: Book 10 in the Tom Thorne series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Mystery
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- Rating: 4.4 based on 3,144 reviews
- Release Date: June 12, 2012
- Print length: 416 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
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. By holding a police officer at gunpoint, he will force the one man who knows more about the case than any other to re-investigate his son's death. That man is DI Tom Thorne. The Twist While Helen fights to stay alive and the body-count rises,Thorne must race against time if he is to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life.
Praise for Good as Dead
Tom Thorne is the new superstar detective...Mark Billingham is the new-wave leader of crime fiction.
One of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today.
Ingeniously constructed...this great novel should put Billingham in the same league as Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, John Harvey and Denise Mina. A breakthrough novel.
A tightly plotted and suspenseful thriller sure to please fans of the genre.
The tenth outing with London detective Tom Thorne starts out as a conventional hostage novel, but then skillfully explores guilt, cultural differences and injustice.
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