Rush of Blood, Mark Billingham
Rush of Blood, Mark Billingham
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Rush of Blood

Author: Mark Billingham

Narrator: Toby Longworth

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2017


Synopsis

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder.

Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy strikes: the fourteen-year-old daughter of an American vacationer goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked couples return home to the U.K., they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better. But they don't always like what they find. Buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some unusual kinks and unpleasant vices. Then, a second girl goes missing, in Kent—not far from where any of the couples lives. Could it be that one of these six has a secret far darker than anybody can imagine?

Ambitiously plotted and laced with dark humor, Rush of Blood is a first-rate suspense novel about the danger of making new friends in seemingly sunny places.

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 Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on February 05, 2017

3.5 stars Three couples, Angie and Barry; Ed and Sue; and Dave and Marina, meet while on vacation in Sarasota, Florida. Bonding over being Brits in America, the couples become “vacation friends,” with the mindset that they will probably never see one another again when they return to England. However......more

Goodreads review by Mary Beth on February 07, 2017

I have not read any of the Tom Thorn series, but I have always wanted to and will be starting that series next month. This book is a stand alone. While I was reading it I thought that it was a thriller and thought that there was not enough action for me. As I read further I found out that it was mo......more

Goodreads review by Esil on January 07, 2017

An enthusiastic 4 stars. I have no idea why Rush of Blood is called Rush of Blood, because it isn't particularly bloody. It's just really clever -- one of the best mysteries I've read in a long time. Three British couples meet while on vacation in Sarasota. On the last day there, a young girl at the......more

Goodreads review by Louise on January 04, 2017

Three British couples meet around the pool of their Florida holiday and very quickly become friends. On the last day of their holiday tragedy strikes. The 14 year old daughter of an American holiday maker goes missing, her body I'd found floating in a mangrove. Once the shocked couples return to the......more