Bloodline, Mark Billingham
Bloodline, Mark Billingham
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Bloodline

Author: Mark Billingham

Narrator: Paul Thornley

Unabridged: 11 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/14/2011


Synopsis

A killer is on the loose. The victims: children whose mothers can't protect them.

The past is coming back to haunt the people of London: a murderer is targeting the children of victims of Raymond Garvey, an infamous serial killer from London's past.

When Murder Squad veteran Detective Tom Thorne, who solves the London Police Department's most difficult cases, is called into what seems like, for once, an ordinary domestic murder, he thinks he's caught a break. A woman has been murdered by someone she knows. A positive pregnancy test found on the floor beside her. Thorne plans to question the husband, arrest him and return home to deal with his own deteriorating personal life.

But when a mysterious sliver of bloodstained X-ray that was found clutched in the victim's fist is replicated at other crime scenes around the city, Thorne realizes that this is not a simple case. As the bits of X-ray begin to come together to form a picture, it becomes clear that the killer knows his prey all too well and is moving through a list that was started long ago.

As Thorne attempts to protect those still alive, nothing and nobody are what they seem. Not when Thorne is dealing with one of the most twisted killers he has ever hunted.

About Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and has also won the Sherlock Award for Best Detective Created by a British Author. His books, which include the critically acclaimed Tom Thorne series, have been translated into twenty-five languages and have sold over six million copies. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Krithika on November 19, 2015

Blah. Sorry its the emotion I felt when reading this book. I have read some amazing murder mysteries but this didn't cut it. Tom Thorne, the country music loving detective is investigating a case where people are killed and have a piece of x-ray in their hand. As they uncover each murder scene the poli......more

Goodreads review by Craig on February 28, 2018

British comedian Mark Billingham burst onto the crime-writing scene in late 2001 with one of the most exceptional debuts in recent memory. Sleepyhead featured a chilling serial ‘killer’ putting people into persistent vegetative states, and introduced gritty yet layered Detective Inspector Tom Thorne......more

Goodreads review by Clare on February 23, 2017

This tale of a serial killer preying on the children of victims of another serial killer is rather strange. Hard to know what is going on in the mind of such a creature of course. The book is from 2009 and mainly it serves to show us that even at that point all the police forces in the UK, which is......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 12, 2019

Very good Tom Thorne novel as the children whose mothers were killed by a long dead serial killer are now being killed themselves. Tom is struggling from personal loss which he can not readily come to terms with and there are some excellent twists and turns along the way. Thorne is a superb and this......more


Quotes

"Chilling, moody, humane, and very, very smart... Billingham is one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today."—Gillian Flynn

"Rich, heady, and gripping. A boss performance by Billingham, through and through."—George Pelecanos

"With each of his books, Mark Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don't want to leave."—Michael Connelly

"Tom Thorne is the new superstar detective...Mark Billingham is the new-wave leader of crime fiction."—Lee Child