This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorMark Billingham
NarratorThe Author
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 10
Duration10h 43m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherLittle, Brown
VersionUnabridged
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. 2012, International Thriller Writers Award, Long-listed
Author: Mark Billingham
Author Mark Billingham
Narrator The Author, Hemi Yeroham
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 7
Duration 10h 23m
The seventh book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. THE MESSAGE DI Tom Thorne has seen plenty of dead bodies in his time. But when he starts receiving sick photos of murder victims on his mobile phone, he soon realises that the next body could be his. THE KILLER And even when the man who has been sending the phot...
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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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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 2
Duration 11h 28m
Two women dead. It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. And this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other wom...
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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 17
Duration 10h 24m
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 Kiero...
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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 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 12
Duration 9h 56m
The Deal: Tom Thorne is back in charge - but there's a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried 25 years before. But only if Thorne agrees to escort him. The Danger: Unable to refuse, Thorne gathers a team and travels to a remote Welsh...
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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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