The third in the DI Tom Thorne series, this is the one where I fell for Thorne hook, line and sinker. And when I mean fall, I mean you can't help but smile at his grumpy, maverick ways and blatant disrespect for authority. Someone is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. Can Thorne catch the killer, when he doesn't really care about the victims? A gripping story that I powered through and well and truly cemented Billingham as one of my fave crime writers, and Thorne as a great hero.
It's only ten days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt.
A DEADLY JUSTICE
Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishment of his own.
A CASE NO ONE WANTS SOLVED
And when a second sex offender is found dead, DI Tom Thorne knows he has a vicious, calculating viliglante on his hands...
LAZYBONES is insanely gripping, the type of book that can rob you of a whole night's sleep. The dark humour is perfectly weighted, the rhythm of the prose is perfectly quick and our hero is likeably dishevelled and careworn Big Issue
An excellent thriller Dublin Evening Herald
A compellingly satisfying police procedural that never loosens its grip on your throat Daily Mail
LAZYBONES is meticulously researched, as interesting as it is enjoyable Daily Mirror
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About Mark Billingham
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.
