The Burning Girl - Brossura

Billingham, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060745274 ISBN 13: 9780060745271

Casa editrice: Avon Books, 2006

Riassunto

Once burned . . .

By rights, the horrific schoolyard crime should have been laid to rest twenty years ago. An alleged perpetrator confessed and now is growing old behind bars. But the case still haunts ex-Detective Chief Inspector Carol Chamberlain -- and she has asked DI Tom Thorne to uncover a disturbing truth that lies buried in the ashes.

A series of brutal gangland slayings -- each victim found with an X gouged into his back -- has Thorne plunging into the fires of a deadly turf war, as he attempts to tie together the threads of perplexing crimes separated by decades. But time is rapidly running out in his search for a copycat who revels in blood and pain -- because the body count keeps rising . . . and someone has carved an X into Tom Thorne's front door.

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Recensione:

“[An] edgy contemporary thriller...a satisfyingly complex plot.” (Sunday Times (London))

“A disturbing and ruthlessly compelling novel. (Sunday Express (London))

“A ruthlessly compelling novel.” (Sunday Express (London))

L'autore:

Mark Billingham is the author of nine novels, including Sleepyhead, Scaredy Cat, Lazybones, The Burning Girl, Lifeless, and Buried—all Times (London) bestsellers—as well as the stand-alone thriller In the Dark. For the creation of the Tom Thorne character, Billingham received the 2003 Sherlock Award for Best Detective created by a British writer, and he has twice won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. He has previously worked as an actor and stand-up comedian on British television and still writes regularly for the BBC. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

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• Editore: Avon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060745274
• ISBN 13: 9780060745271
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 386