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…

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 death months before on the same day.

TWO KILLERS WORKING TOGETHER
It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them - and two killers are way more deadly than one . . .

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…

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 and nowhere to be found. How can you escape a past that will do a lot more than just catch up with you? And how can Thorne catch a killer, when he doesn't really care about the victims?

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…