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
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 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 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 Avita Jay, Sagar Arya
SeriesTom Thorne, Book 14
Duration 10h 51m
From number one best seller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real. A bloody massage 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....
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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 9
Duration 10h 15m
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 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 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 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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