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DI Tom Thorne and DI Nicola Tanner investigate a series of brutal killings in London in the year´s most shocking crime novel - and the most daring work yet from number one bestseller Mark Billingham

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´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 ________________

The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is available to pre-order now

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His [Billingham´s] storylines of murders that go unseen or unrecognised are chilling and moving, and Tom Thorne is on terrific form The Times

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Billingham, Mark
Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston´s Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.

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