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Title details for Love Like Blood by Mark Billingham - Available

Love Like Blood

A Novel

#14 in series

by Mark Billingham
Sagar Arya
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DI Nicola Tanner needs Tom Thorne's help. Her partner, Susan, has been brutally murdered and Tanner is convinced that it was a case of mistaken identity-that she was the real target. The murderer's motive might have something to do with Tanner's recent work on a string of cold-case honor killings she believes to be related. Tanner is now on compassionate leave but insists on pursuing the case off the books and knows Thorne is just the man to jump into the fire with her. He agrees but quickly finds that working in such controversial territory is dangerous in more ways than one. And when a young couple goes missing, they have a chance to investigate a case that is anything but cold. Racing towards a twist-filled ending, Love Like Blood is another feat of masterful plotting from one of Britain's top crime novelists.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Tom Thorne

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    June 20, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781681686448
      • File size: 311633 KB
      • Duration: 10:49:14

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Mark Billingham ably narrates the fourteenth book in his series featuring London-based police detective Tom Thorne. It can be unwise for authors to narrate their own work, but Billingham is an exception. He demonstrates that he knows his own shortcomings by using two British Indian actors to voice members of the Asian community in a story involving so-called honor killings. On the whole this works, though there is the occasional clunky line. Avita Jay's reading of the diary entries of a young woman who is being pressured by her father and brother to conform conveys exactly her defiance and desperation. Billingham avoids gratuitous descriptions of violence, keeping the focus on the strong plot of this solid police procedural. C.A.T. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 17, 2017
      Billingham’s entertaining 14th Tom Thorne novel (after 2015’s Time of Death) teams the formerly rule-bending London detective inspector, who’s fighting middle age and an expanding waistline, with Det. Insp. Nicola Tanner, introduced in 2016’s standalone, Die of Shame. When Tanner’s life partner, Susan Best, is murdered outside the couple’s home after a shopping trip, the by-the-book Tanner believes that she, not Susan, was the intended victim, retaliation for her investigation of a series of honor killings in London’s Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh communities. Skeptical at first, Thorne agrees to help Tanner when a young Bangladeshi couple disappears, and Thorne suspects that the honor killings may be linked to a cold case from his past. Readers may wish for more tension from the contrasting styles of the two well-drawn leads, or that the main plot could offer more surprises, but one perfectly executed twist at the end will leave them eagerly awaiting the next in this series. Agent: David Forrer, Inkwell Management.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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