Love Like Blood
- Authors: Mark Billingham
- Series: Book 14 in the Tom Thorne series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Mystery
- Rank:
- Rating: 4.4 based on 5,810 reviews
- Release Date: June 20, 2017
- Print length: 432 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
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.
Accolades
Praise for Love Like Blood
Billingham is a world-class writer
Billingham's skillful plotting is everywhere in evidence here, and Thorne remains a compelling character, comparable to Connelly's Bosch and Rankin's Rebus.
Gripping... A mighty fine police procedural, and it’s a pleasure, as always, to watch Tom sift through clues and intentional misdirection along the journey to find his perps. And in keeping with the time-honored tradition, there is a final-chapter surprise to keep you on your toes.
Irascible, irritating and indefatigable, DI Tom Thorne has earned his place in the pantheon of fine fictional policemen, alongside those legendary inspectors Morse and Rebus... Billingham's passionate depiction of the injustice and brutality that flow from these killings spills from every page, making this one of his most powerful crime novels, written with a fury that does both him and Thorne justice.
Brilliant
Very few will predict the unnerving coda... A new and urgent spin on his tried-and-true procedural formula.
A gripping and genuinely tragic story.
Entertaining... One perfectly executed twist at the end will leave [readers] eagerly awaiting the next in this series.
This sensitive topic is delicately handled, with a perfectly executed and thoroughly unnerving twist at the end.
A novel that probes the phenomenon of honor killings and casts doubt on the work of the Metropolitan Police's Honor Crimes Unit.
Honor-based violence is a scourge in Britain, where the Crown Prosecution Service estimates that the 12 or so honor killings reported each year are only a fraction of the true number committed... In Love Like Blood, Mark Billingham puts human faces on one such case... Although 'dishonored' male relatives are prime suspects in most cases of punitive violence, squeamish families often prefer to shop the job to a middleman with access to professional hit men'thugs like Muldoon and Riaz, who collaborate efficiently but whose cultural clashes can be morbidly funny.
Groundbreaking and gripping
One of the great series of British crime fiction
Chilling and moving. Tom Thorne is on terrific form.
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