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The Burning Girl

Tom Thorne, Book 4

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The Burning Girl

By: Mark Billingham
Narrated by: Roger Lloyd Pack
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 Jessica Clarke had been set alight 20 years ago. Her attacker, quickly tracked down and eager to confess, is still in jail, his career as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer, and claiming that he is one who burned the girl?

Now retired, Carol turns to DI Tom Thorne for help. Thorne is up to his neck investigating a series of killings which appear to be the result of a turf war between rival gangs, and he's fed up to the gills with reporting to DCI Tughan, so helping Carol out looks like a good deed in a naughty world. Only the world is about to turn much nastier, so nasty in fact that he finds himself longing for a straightforward psycopath to hunt down.

This is a powerful work, exploring the effects of violence and greed on the lives of those who exploit their fellow beings.

©2001 Mark Billingham (P)2005 Time Warner AudioBooks Action & Adventure Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Suspense Thriller & Suspense

Critic Reviews

"A disturbing and thrilling medical procedural with memorable characters and bundles of atmosphere." ( Guardian)
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loving the references to Colchester and Barkingside. Both were my old stomping grounds as a copper.

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great storyline as always. absolutely terrible narration unfortunately. won't listen again unless it's narrated by the author himself

where has mark billingham gone?

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The story was good. The narrator was bad at accents and the overall performance spoiled by the ridiculous punctuation of plinky plonky piano music
Awful and unnecessary.

Great story

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