Love Like Blood

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In Love Like Blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne teams up with Detective Inspector Nicola Tanner to investigate a series of honour killings in London. As they delve deeper, they uncover a sinister conspiracy that spans across different communities and poses a significant threat. The novel intertwines intense suspense and gripping intrigue with social issues, making it an engrossing addition to the crime and thriller genre.
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Love Like Blood

This heart-pounding thriller from multi-award-winning number-one bestseller Mark Billingham sees DI Tom Thorne take the biggest risk of his career as he and DI Nicola Tanner investigate a series of brutal killings in London

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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.

Series: Tom Thorne Novels

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780751566925

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 March 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Sphere

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 199.0mm

Weight: 372g

Pages: 544

About the Author

Mark Billingham has won numerous awards, being one of only two authors to twice win the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year. Each of his novels has been a Sunday Times bestseller, including all those in his two series, Tom Thorne and Declan Miller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1, 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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