This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorMark Billingham
NarratorThe Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 17
Duration10h 24m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherLittle, Brown
VersionUnabridged
Cry Baby is the shocking first case for one of British crime fiction's most iconic detectives. It's 1996. Detective Sergeant Tom Thorne is a haunted man. Haunted by the moment he ignored his instinct about a suspect, by the horrific crime that followed and by the memories that come day and night, in sunshine and shadow. So when seven-year-old Kieron Coyne goes missing while playing in the woods with his best friend, Thorne vows he will not make the same mistake again. Cannot. The solitary witness. The strange neighbour. The friendly teacher. All are in Thorne's sights. This case will be the making of him...or the breaking. Full cast list: Mark Billingham, David Morrissey, Robert Glenister, Candida Gubbins, Nathalie Buscombe, Mandy Weston, Rachel Atkins, Rupert Farley, Homer Todiwala, Nigel Pilkington, David John, Will Kelly, Glen McCready, Bhavnisha Parmar, Henley Ingall, Luke Stoneham.
Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 8
Duration 9h 35m
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 10 years in prison. But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband. The man she hates with every fibre...
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Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 1
Duration 10h 7m
The classic first novel from Mark Billingham introduces DI Tom Thorne in a unforgettable and terrifying case that changed crime fiction forever. Alison Willetts has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel but she is completely unable to move or communicate...
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Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 5
Duration 11h 1m
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...
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Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 16
Duration 10h 22m
The 16th book in the Tom Thorne series, from best-selling author Mark Billingham. She says she's an ordinary mother. He knows a liar when he sees one. Sarah thinks of herself as a normal single mum. It's what she wants others to think of her. But the truth is, she needs something new, something thrilling. Meanwhile, DI Tom Thorne is investigating a...
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Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 15
Duration 11h 14m
From multi-million-copy 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've all heard about the signs: coldness, cruelty, mistreatment of animals. DI Tom Thorne knows the psychological profile...
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Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 6
Duration 10h 58m
A missing boy Teenager Luke Mullen was last seen getting into a car with an older woman. No one can understand why he has disappeared. His father - a former police officer - knows all too well that the longer he is missing, the more likely he is to turn up dead. A terrifying video Then Luke's parents receive an anonymous video. It shows their son,...
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Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 13
Duration 10h 46m
Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up. But this is a place full of secrets, where dangerous truths lie buried. When family man Stephen Bates has been arrested, Helen and her partner Tom Thorne head to the flooded town...
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Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 3
Duration 10h 51m
A MONSTER MURDERED It's only ten days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt. A DEADLY JUSTICE Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishme...
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Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 11
Duration 9h 14m
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. Patr...
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Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 18
Duration 9h 10m
In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. He finally has a love life worth a damn and is happy in the job to which he has devoted his life.... He has everything to lose. Hunting the woman responsible for a series of grisly murders, Thorne has no way of knowing that he will be plunged into a nightmare from which he ma...
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