Love Like Blood (Tom Thorne Novels)

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Billingham skilfully gets his distaste at the subject across to the reader through Thorne’s reactions, while still leaving them the scope to make their own minds up about what has occurred. What puts this novel above Billingham’s other outstanding books is his expert braiding together of a very suspenseful plot with the timely subject of honor killings. This is an excellent addition to the series and I would not only recommend this book but the series itself to any lover of Thrillers. The book does what it is supposed to as a thriller, keeping the reader turning the pages, giving us believable characters but at the same time allowing us a glimpse of a world in which we know very little about.

The idea of honour killings - be it for love or some other inferred shame - is the central premise of this book.

So I was horrified upon reading Marks notes at the end of the story, to find that this is a growing problem in The UK. Convinced it is tied into a theory she was investigating she hopes Thorne will show his usual disregard for procedure and follow the leads unconsidered in the main investigation. I have given it more than 1 star because it was fairly quick to read and I think someone else might possibly just be able to enjoy it but it wasn't for me at all.

A television series based on the Thorne novels was screened in Autumn 2010, starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne and a BBC series based on the standalone thrillers IN THE DARK and TIME OF DEATH was shown in 2017.When a teenage couple disappear off the subway, Thorne and Tanner have a chance to investigate a case that is anything but cold. The detectives find a link to two men seen near the pair on the underground and CCTV shows the pair being hustled out of a station into a car.