Tom Thorne Seria

Inspektor Tom Thorne, doświadczony detektyw, stawia czoła zawirowaniom przestępczego Londynu. Każda część serii to skomplikowane sprawy, które wystawiają na próbę jego bystry umysł i osobistą determinację. Czytelnik towarzyszy mu w nieustannej walce o sprawiedliwość, zmagając się z cieniami miasta oraz własnymi wewnętrznymi demonami.

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Sleepyhead
Mark Billingham
416 stron
15 godzin czytania
It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable damage to the ligaments in her neck, and their cause of death is changed from 'natural' to murder. The police aren't making much progress in their hunt for the killer until he appears to make a mistake: Alison Willetts is found alive and D.I. Tom Thorne believes the murderer has made a mistake, which ought to allow them to get on his tracks. But it was the others who were his mistakes: he doesn't want to take life, he just wants to put people into a state where they cannot move, cannot talk, cannot do anything but think. When Thorne, helped by the neurologist looking after Alison, starts to realise what he is up against he knows the case is not going to be solved by normal methods - before he can find out who did it he has to understand why he's doing it.
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Scaredy Cat
Mark Billingham
448 stron
16 godzin czytania
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. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day... It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them. Finding the body used to be the worst part of the job. Not any more. Now each time a body is found, Thorne must live with the knowledge that somewhere out there is a second victim, waiting to be discovered. But whilst the methods might be the same Thorne comes to realise that he is hunting two very different killers. One is ruthless and in control, while his partner in crime is submissive, compliant, terrified. Thorne must catch a man whose need to manipulate is as great as his need to kill; a man, who will show him that the ability to inspire terror is the deadliest weapon of all...
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Lazy Bones
Mark Billingham
Someone - a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman - is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before ; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children, now adults and nowhere to be found... How can you escape a past that will do a lot more than just catch up with you? And how can Thorne catch a killer, when he doesn't really care about the victims?
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The Burning Girl
Mark Billingham
464 strony
17 godzin czytania
The fourth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. A MAN WHO KILLS FOR MONEY X marks the spot - and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, DI Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious killer. A BRUTAL VENDETTA This is brutal turf warfare between north London gangs. Organised crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else's patch, and that someone is not best pleased. A COP WHO IS PLAYING WITH FIRE And when an X is carved on DI Tom Thorne's front door, he knows the smouldering embers of this case are about to erupt into flames... __________ Read what everyone's saying about the heart-racing Tom Thorne series: 'Literary superstar' Mail on Sunday 'Ingenious' Guardian 'Ground-breaking' Sunday Times 'Mark Billingham gets better and better' Michael Connelly 'A cracking read . . . I couldn't put it down!' Shari Lapena 'A damn fine storyteller' Karin Slaughter 'Twisted and twisty' Linwood Barclay 'One of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today' Gillian Flynn 'The next superstar detective is already with us. Don't miss him' Lee Child
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Lifeless
Mark Billingham
480 stron
17 godzin czytania
It appears that someone is targeting London's homeless community so DI Tom Thorne goes undercover amongst them. The information he gleans is that this is no random killer, it is someone with a specific list of victims.
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Buried - An Uncorrected Bound Proof
Mark Billingham
405 stron
15 godzin czytania
Teenager Luke Mullen is missing. He was last seen by schoolmates getting into a car with an older woman, and it is unclear whether he has disappeared voluntarily or been abducted. "Police looking For the boy are pretty certain they are dealing with a missing-persons case. The son of a former police officer. Luke has no history of being out of touch, no track record of truancy or misbehavior. And they know that the longer he is missing, the more likely he is to turn up dead. Then the videotape arrives ..." "On special assignment, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne searches desperately for the boy and for anyone who might have a grudge against him or his father, former detective Tony Mullen. As someone responsible for convicting many tough villains in his time, Luke's father is asked to list a few potential suspects. But it is the names Mullen carefully omits from the list that intrigue Thorne. Has Mullen simply forgotten about the criminal who threatened him? Is he so distraught in the emotional trauma of his son's disappearance? Or is he hiding something?" "When the kidnapper demonstrates, shockingly, that he is not reluctant to kill, Thorne knows he does not have the luxury of time. He must dig hard and deep into old cases and past lives. He learns that secrets are as easily hidden as bodies, and that even if Luke Mullen is still alive, making assumptions is the quickest way to get him dead and buried."--BOOK JACKET.
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Mściciel
Mark Billingham
408 stron
15 godzin czytania
Marcus Brooks kończy właśnie odsiadkę za zbrodnię, której nie popełnił. Niecierpliwie oczekuje na powrót do życia, do rodziny… Kilka dni przed opuszczeniem zakładu karnego otrzymuje wiadomość, że jego żona i dziecko zginęli, potrąceni na pasach przez samochód skradziony przez kilku nastolatków z gangu. Od tej pory przyświeca mu tylko jeden cel: dopaść tych, którzy są odpowiedzialni za śmierć jego bliskich, i tych, którzy wrobili go w morderstwo. Prowadzący sprawę detektyw inspektor Tom Thorne nie spodziewa się, że dzięki niej zetknie się z mrocznym koszmarem z przeszłości i będzie miał okazję uregulować rachunki za niedawną, rodzinną tragedię.
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Bloodline
Mark Billingham
The eighth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead. When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, Thorne has a macabre jigsaw to piece together until the horrifying picture finally emerges. A killer is targeting the children of Raymond Garvey's victims. Thorne must move quickly to protect those still on the murderer's list, but nothing and nobody are what they seem. Not when Thorne is dealing with one of the most twisted killers he has ever hunted... ________________ The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is out now!
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Pułapka
Mark Billingham
384 strony
14 godzin czytania
Kto raz został gangsterem, pozostaje nim na zawsze. Minęło dziesięć lat od znalezienia zwęglonych szczątków Alana Langforda w spalonym samochodzie. Jego żona, Donna, została skazana na dziesięć lat za zaplanowanie zabójstwa. Tuż przed wyjściem z więzienia otrzymuje anonimowy list z zdjęciami męża, który, jak sądziła, zginął. Jak to możliwe? Gdzie się ukrywa? Detektyw inspektor Tom Thorne angażuje się w sprawę, w której nikt nie jest tym, kim się wydaje. Po raz pierwszy musi rozszerzyć swoje działania poza Londyn, aby schwytać mordercę, który nie cofnie się przed niczym, by chronić swoje nowe życie. Mark Billingham to czołowy autor powieści kryminalnych, zdobywający prestiżowe brytyjskie nagrody literackie. Jego postać inspektora Toma Thorne'a, uznanego za jednego z najciekawszych detektywów, została uhonorowana nagrodą Sherlocka. Wszystkie thrillery Billinghama znajdują się na szczycie bestsellerów 'Sunday Timesa'. Na podstawie powieści z Thorne'em powstał serial filmowy. „Billingham umie przyrządzić prawdziwie królewski kryminał. Jest mistrzem w swoim fachu.” – Guardian. „Jeżeli jeszcze nie znasz detektywa Thorne'a, sięgnij po tę książkę. Nie będziesz żałować.” – Sunday Express.
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Good As Dead
Mark Billingham
520 stron
19 godzin czytania
The tenth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. 'Billingham's most desperately gripping read yet' Daily Mirror Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagents on her way to work. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but she is about to come face to face with a gunman. The hostage-taker is desperate to know what happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding Helen at gunpoint, he will force a re-investigation into his son's death. And one man knows the case better than any other - DI Tom Thorne. As the body count rises, Thorne must race against time to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life. Taking place over three action-packed days, this is the fastest and most surprising Thorne thriller yet from Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham. 'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times 'A new Mark Billingham is always a treat' Susie Steiner ________________ The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is out now!
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Perswazja
Mark Billingham
340 stron
12 godzin czytania
W Londynie ma miejsce seria samobójstw wśród starszych osób. Policja nie widzi w tym nic podejrzanego, zamyka jedną sprawę po drugiej. Tylko jeden człowiek podejrzewa, że w grę wchodzi coś bardziej złowieszczego. Inspektor Tom Thorne, przeniesiony niedawno karnie do służby mundurowej, ma przeczucie, że w tych zgonach ktoś maczał palce. Krok po kroku, narażając swą i tak już mocno nadszarpniętą reputację, podupadającą karierę i ledwie rozpoczęty nowy związek oraz przyjaźń i dalsze kariery swych nielicznych przyjaciół, rusza tropem mordercy. Natrafia na sławną sprawę sprzed lat i zatwardziałego londyńskiego gangstera, który nie zawaha się przed niczym, aby dopełnić krwawej zemsty. To człowiek niemający nic do stracenia i sporą listę ofiar do zlikwidowania. Co więcej, zna sposób, aby zmusić tych ludzi, aby sami odebrali sobie życie… W tej rozgrywce prócz zimnej krwi Thorne’owi potrzebna będzie zwłaszcza siła perswazji. Mark Billingham należy do czołówki autorów powieści kryminalnych. Od kilku lat otrzymuje najważniejsze brytyjskie nagrody literackie. Za postać inspektora Toma Thorne’a, uznanego za najciekawszego detektywa, został uhonorowany nagrodą Sherlocka. Wszystkie thrillery Billinghama trafiają na najwyższe miejsca bestsellerów „Sunday Timesa”, m.in. Kokon, Mięczak, Ofiary, Podpalona, Zapomniani, Uprowadzony, Tajemnica, Naśladowca, Pułapka, Presja i Impuls śmierci. Na podstawie powieści z Thorne’em nakręcono serial filmowy.
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The Bones Beneath
Mark Billingham
469 stron
17 godzin czytania
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 twenty-five 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 island, at the mercy of the weather and cut off from the mainland. Thorne is determined to get the job done and return home before Nicklin can outwit them. The Deaths But Nicklin knows this island well and has had time to plan ahead. Soon, new bodies are added to the old, and Thorne finds himself facing the toughest decision he has ever had to make...Tom Thorne returns in this utterly gripping, brilliantly plotted thriller. The Bones Beneath is Mark Billingham's most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
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Czas śmierci
Mark Billingham
Małym miasteczkiem Polesford, w kt�rym dorastała funkcjonariuszka Helen Weeks, wstrząsa tragedia ? zaginięcie dw�ch nastolatek. Gdy do prasy przecieka informacja o aresztowaniu statecznego męża i ojca rodziny, Stephena Batesa, Helen wraz z detektywem Thorne'em przybywa po latach w rodzinne strony, by odkryć prawdę o uprowadzeniach, ale też zmierzyć się z własną mroczną przeszłością. Okazuje się, że żoną podejrzanego jest przyjaci�łka Helen z lat szkolnych, kt�ra potrzebuje wsparcia w tej niezwykle trudnej sytuacji. Podczas gdy mieszkańcy i media domagają się krwi Batesa, Thorne nabiera przekonania, że wbrew zgromadzonym dowodom zdającym się świadczyć o winie zatrzymanego, policja aresztowała niewinnego człowieka, a wyjątkowo przebiegły przestępca wciąż jest na wolności. Niezłomny detektyw postanawia stawić czoła miejscowej policji, prasie oraz mieszkańcom Polesford i udowodnić, że zaszła straszliwa pomyłka w policyjnym śledztwie. W miasteczku nadal czai się bezlitosny, ale inteligentny przestępca, kt�ry robi wszystko, by uniknąć kary. Thorne po raz kolejny musi zmierzyć się z przeciwnikiem o wiele sprytniejszym niż zwykli przestępcy.
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Love like blood
Mark Billingham
518 stron
19 godzin czytania
'Groundbreaking and gripping'Sunday Times A BLOODY MESSAGE 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. A POWERFUL ALLY Taken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts. A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE As the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world in which families will do anything to protect their honour. From number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real. ________________ 'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times 'Billingham is a world-class writer' Karin Slaughter
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The Killing Habit
Mark Billingham
560 stron
20 godzin czytania
'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times From multi-million-copy number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a twisting, unbearably gripping DI Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner thriller inspired by a dramatic real-life case. How do you catch a killer who is yet to kill? We've all heard about the signs: coldness, cruelty, lack of empathy. DI Tom Thorne knows the psychological profile of a psychopath all too well, so when pets start disappearing on suburban London streets, he sees a chance to stop a future murderer. Others are less convinced, so Thorne relies on DI Nicola Tanner to help him solve the case, before the culprit starts hunting people. The journey brings them face to face with a killer who will tear their lives apart. ---------- 'A new Mark Billingham is always a treat and The Killing Habit hurls the reader straight into the action. Thoroughly enjoyable for being so very real' SUSIE STEINER 'Mark Billingham on superb form. A finely paced and polished procedural, with twists and turns galore and an ending that will chill your soul' CARA HUNTER 'An unconventionalliterary superstar' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'As ever with Billingham, a rich cast of characters and tense situations are marshalled with panache, leading to a final terrifying encounter' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Thorne is a terrific invention' IRISH INDEPENDENT ________________
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Their Little Secret
Mark Billingham
512 stron
18 godzin czytania
The sixteenth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham. 'Hugely intelligent and authentic' BELINDA BAUER, AUTHOR OF SNAP 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 woman's suicide, convinced she was driven to do it by a man who preys on vulnerable women. A man who is about to change Sarah's life. From number one, five-million-copy bestseller Mark Billingham comes a breathless new thriller starring Thorne and Tanner that readers will devour. PRAISE FOR MARK BILLINGHAM 'One of the great series of British crime fiction' THE TIMES 'An unconventional literary superstar' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Billingham is a world-class writer' KARIN SLAUGHTER 'A new Mark Billingham is always a treat' SUSIE STEINER 'Finely paced and polished procedural, with twists and turns galore' CARA HUNTER 'Perfectly executed and with a thoroughly unnerving twist' GUARDIAN 'Thorne is a terrific invention' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Mark Billingham gets better and better' MICHAEL CONNELLY
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Cry Baby
Mark Billingham
512 stron
18 godzin czytania
Two boys run into the woods--but only one returns-- In the summer of 1996, two boys run from a playground into the adjoining woods, but only one comes out. DS Tom Thorne takes on the case--which quickly spirals out of control when two people connected to the missing boy are murdered. As London prepares to host the European Soccer Championships, Thorne fights to keep on top of a baffling investigation while also dealing with the ugly fallout of his broken marriage . . .
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