Лучшие книги Марка Биллингема

Очередной нервный срыв – и детектив полиции Алиса Армитейдж загремела в психиатрическое отделение интенсивной терапии. И хотя к ее "послужному списку" добавились ПТСР из-за гибели напарника, самолечение с помощью алкоголя и наркотиков, депрессия и психозы, Алиса убеждена: ей тут не место! В отличие от соседей по палате… Кто-то из пациентов забавен, кто-то странен, а кто-то опасен. Чтобы занять время, она наблюдает за ними, анализирует, дает клички… Все это пригождается, когда кто-то убивает одного из ее соседей. Начав собственное расследование, Алиса приходит к выводу: она знает, кто преступник. Но когда ее главный подозреваемый становится второй жертвой, мир летит вверх тормашками. Она понимает, что не может доверять никому. И в первую очередь – самой себе…

В семье бывшего старшего инспектора полиции Тони Маллена исчезает сын - шестнадцатилетний Люк. Инспектор Торн, полагая, что речь идет о похищении, просит отца Люка составить список людей, которые могут иметь на него зуб. В списке нет фамилии Фристоуна - человека, который когда-то открыто угрожал Маллену, а сейчас разыскивается по подозрению в убийстве. Случайно ли…

Инспектор Том Торн в тяжелой депрессии после смерти отца, и его переводят на бумажную работу, чтобы не мешал в расследовании серьезных престкплений.

В Лондоне находят убитым уже второго бродягу, ночующего на улице. Полиция подозревает, что это дело рук серийного убийцы. Появление третьего трупа с такими же признакам насильственной смерти укрепляет в этом мнении. Но бездомные опасаются откровенничать с полицейскими, и тогда Торн, добившись разрешения начальства, под видом бродяги отправляется на улицу.

Торн знакомится с молодым наркоманом Торчком и его подругой Кэролайн, они вводят его в круг бездомных. Глядя изнутри на сложный мир бродяг, Торн смог распутать клубок преступлений и найти не только убийцу, но и заказчика.

TWO WOMEN DEAD It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. And this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to…

His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate...

Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel and is aware of everything going on around her, but is completely unable to move or communicate. Her condition is called Locked-In Syndrome. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer made his first mistake.

Then D.I. Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth; it isn’t Alison who is the mistake, it’s the three women already dead. "An appropriate margin of error" is how their killer dismisses them, and Thorne knows they are unlikely to be the last. For the killer is smart, and he’s getting his kicks out of toying with Thorne as much as he is pursuing his sick fantasy. Thorne knows immediately he’s not going to catch the killer with simple procedure. But with little more than gut instinct and circumstantial evidence to damn his chief suspect, anesthetist Jeremy Bishop, his pursuit of him is soon bordering on the unprofessional. Especially considering his involvement with Anne Coburn, Alison’s doctor and Jeremy’s close friend.

Thorne must find a man whose agenda is terrifyingly unique, and Alison, the one person who holds the key to the killer’s identity, is unable to speak...

The Hostage
Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman.
The Demand
The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding a police officer at gunpoint, he will force the one man who knows more about the case than any other to re-investigate his son's death. That man is DI Tom Thorne.
The Twist
While Helen fights to stay alive and the body-count rises,Thorne must race against time if he is to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life.

From “one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today” (Gillian Flynn), The Killing Habit again brings together favorite wild-card detective Tom Thorne and straight-laced DI Nicola Tanner on a pair of lethally high-stakes cases.

While DI Nicola Tanner investigates the deadly spread of a dangerous new drug, Tom Thorne is handed a case that he doesn’t take too seriously, until a spate of animal killings points to the work of a serial killer. When the two cases come together in a way that neither could have foreseen, both Thorne and Tanner must risk everything to catch two very different killers.

Someone - a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman, is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children, now adults…

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who's unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated.

Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner) Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consultant Barry Shepherd at the Sands Hotel. Initial evidence suggests a hired gun and a botched job. The search for the hitman begins and Miller begins to reconnect with his old network--his ballroom dancing friends, homeless informant Finn, and even the ghost of his wife who keeps showing up in his kitchen. The fact Alex had been investigating the Cutler family prior to her death complicates things, and as Miller gets closer to the truth, he realizes the danger is walking right up to his doorstep...