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The fifth book in the tom thorne series, from bestselling author mark billingham. a series of killings 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? a deadly mission 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 fifteen-year-old atrocity. a ruthless enemy those who know are keeping quiet. but the word on these streets is that the killer is a cop… __________ read what everyone’s saying about the heart-racing tom thorne series: ‘literary superstar’ mail on sunday ‘ingenious’ guardian ‘ground-breaking’ sunday times ‘mark billingham gets better and better’ michael connelly ‘a cracking read . . . i couldn’t put it down!’ shari lapena ‘a damn fine storyteller’ karin slaughter ‘twisted and twisty’ linwood barclay ‘one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today’ gillian flynn ‘the next superstar detective is already with us. don’t miss him’ lee child

A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small dales church and a huge manhunt follows. eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course. but banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why.

Nina landry has given up city life for the isolated community of sandling island, lying off the bleak east coast of england. at night the wind howls. sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. for nina though it is home. it is safe. but when nina’s teenage daughter charlie fails to return from a sleepover on the day they’re due to go on holiday, the island becomes a different place altogether. a place of secrets and suspicions. where no one ; friends, neighbours or the police ; believes nina’s instinctive fear that her daughter is in terrible danger. alone, she undergoes a frantic search for charlie. and as day turns to night, she begins to doubt not just whether they’ll leave the island for their holiday ; but whether they will ever leave it again.

Four strong women. all working in a family business. but what happens when they begin to want different things? and what about the men âe” and the children âe” in their lives? susie moran has always been the breadwinner in her family. her husband was the one who was there for their three girls. but now he wants something of his past back âe” the life he had before susieâe(tm)s career took off, before they had children. and those children donâe(tm)t see their motherâe(tm)s business the way she has always seen it, thereby threatening the balance she has worked so hard to achieve. and then, amidst the simmering tensions, someone significant from the past, someone almost forgotten, turns up. the problems of the past, the present, and the future all become challenges to the stability of both family and work. which relationships âe” if any âe” will survive?