"In this the sixth book in the Thorne series, a sixteen-year-old son of a former high-ranking police officer, disappears. Currently sidelined the digruntled Thorne is brought in to help locate the missing boy. As the child's life hangs in the balance it's a race against time for Thorne - navigating family intrigue and undercovering secrets well buried. As in all of Billingham's books, Buried is comprehensively plotted and truly realistic. This has twists and turns galore and as always doesn't disappoint. "
With this the sixth in the DI Thorne series, Billingham continues to do for London what Rankin does for Edinburgh.
When a sixteen-year-old son of a former high-ranking police officer, disappears, the currently sidelined and digruntled Thorne is brought in to help locate the missing boy. As the child's life hangs in the balance it's a race against time for Thorne - navigating family intrigue and undercovering secrets well buried. As in all of Billingham's books, Buried is comprehensively plotted and truly realistic. This has twists and turns galore and as always doesn't disappoint.
Luke Mullen, sixteen-year-old son of a former high-ranking police officer, has disappeared, presumed kidnapped. While no-one quite dares to voice the fear that he could also be presumed dead, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is brought in to beef up the squad dedicated to locating the missing boy. The first thing the team looks for is anyone with a grudge against Luke’s father, a man who has put a lot of tough villains away in his time. A list quickly emerges, but Thorne discovers that ex-DCI Tony Mullen has omitted the name of the most obvious suspect: a man who'd once threatened him and his family and who, after serving time for his original crime, is now the main suspect in a murder which has been unsolved for four years. Is this a simple oversight, understandable considering the trauma of his son's disappearance? Or is it something more telling? Aware that he hasn't the luxury of time, Thorne searches desperately for connections and leads, but learns that secrets are as easily buried as bodies, and that assumptions are the enemies of truth.
Mark Billingham has been awarded the 2003 Sherlock Award as the creator of the Best Detective created by a British writer and has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier prize for best novel of the year.
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.
A dogged London cop whose beat somehow invariably crosses into the dark side and confronts evil at its cleverest.DEATH MESSAGE is the 7th in the series, and BLOOD LINE appears in August 2009.
