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In a vicious, calculated murder, a victim is selected at Euston Station, followed home, and strangled in front of her child. When a second body is discovered, killed in the same way at King's Cross station, DI Tom Thorne comes to a horrifying conclusion: this is not one killer, but two.

A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister.... One life is wiped out, and three more are changed forever: the young man whose finger was on the trigger, an aging gangster planning a deadly revenge and the pregnant woman who struggles desperately to uncover the truth. Two weeks away from giving birth, how will she deal with a world where death is an occupational hazard?

They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored, treated, cared for. But now one of their number is found murdered, and the accusations begin to fly. Was it one of his fellow patients? A member of staff? Or did someone come in from the outside? DC Alice Armitage is methodical, tireless, and she's quickly on the trail of the killer. The only problem is, Alice is a patient too.

Sarah thinks of herself as a normal single mum. It's what she wants others to think of her. But the truth is, she needs something new, something thrilling. Meanwhile, DI Tom Thorne is investigating a woman's suicide, convinced she was driven to do it by a man who preys on vulnerable women. A man who is about to change Sarah's life.

From number one best seller Mark Billingham comes a twisting, unbearably gripping DI Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner thriller inspired by a dramatic real-life case. How do you catch a killer who is yet to kill? We all know the signs. Cruelty, lack of empathy, the killing of animals. Now, pets on suburban London streets are being stalked by a shadow, and it could just be the start. DI Tom Thorne knows the psychological profile of such offenders all too well.

Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father, berated for overstepping the mark on his last case, he's been 'encouraged' to take leave. It's a fairly dire situation. But not as dire as the situation for London's homeless. Three vagrants have been found murdered in the last month. Were they just random jetsam, or were they targeted for a reason?

When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered 15 years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met and ended with seven women dead.

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?

Full of betrayal, deceit and suspense, Die of Shame is the spectacular new book from number-one best seller Mark Billingham - author of Time of Death and In the Dark, both soon to be major BBC series. Every Monday evening six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about addiction. There they share their deepest secrets: stories of lies, regret and, above all, shame. Then one of them is killed - and it's clear one of the circle was responsible.

A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Such things are not unknown to the police and the deaths are quickly dismissed by the police as routine. Only one man is convinced that something more sinister is taking place.However, no one listens to Tom Thorne anymore. Having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform and he hates it. Patronised and abused by his new colleagues, Thorne's suspicions about the suicides are dismissed by the Murder Squad he was once part of and he is forced to investigate alone.

It seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead.

So many things that could have been different. An almost infinite number of them: the flight of the ball, the angle of the bat, the movement of his feet as he skipped down the pitch. The weather, the time, the day of the week, the whatever. The smallest variance in any one of these things or in the way that each connected to the other at the crucial moment and nothing would have happened as it did. An inch another way or a second or a step and it would have been a very different story.

Discover one of the two masterful hit novels adapted for the massive new BBC One Drama series In The Dark, featuring brilliant heroine Helen Weeks - continuing in number one best seller Time of Death. A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister....

Der Londoner Detective Inspector Tom Thorne hat endlich alles, wonach er sich immer gesehnt hat: gute Freunde, eine liebende Partnerin an seiner Seite und Erfolg in dem Job, dem er sein Leben verschrieben hat. Doch je mehr man hat, desto mehr kann man verlieren ... Innerhalb weniger Tage werden mehrere Männer tot in ihren Betten gefunden. An allen Tatorten finden die Ermittler der Metropolitan Police zwei Weingläser, die auf einen romantischen Abend schließen lassen. Bald stellt sich heraus, dass jedes der Opfer online nach Liebe suchte – oder wenigstens nach einem Abenteuer für eine Nacht.

W Pelican Palms na Florydzie spotykają się trzy pary Brytyjczyków. Zaprzyjaźniają się, ale ostatniego dnia ich doskonałe wakacje zmieniają się w koszmar: znika trzynastoletnia córka jednej z wczasowiczek kurortu. Podejrzany może być każdy z powyższej szóstki, bo wszyscy mają swoje mroczne tajemnice. Po powrocie do Anglii trzy pary kontynuują znajomość, ale mroczny cień na ich przyjaźń rzuca sprawa zaginionej - a jak się wkrótce okazuje, zamordowanej dziewczynki.

Einen Toten erkennt Detective Inspector Tom Thorne sofort, und das Foto auf seinem Handy ist eindeutig das einer Leiche. Nur wer ist dieser Mann, und warum hat man Thorne dieses Bild zugeschickt? Weitere Todesnachrichten folgen, und die Spur führt zu einem erst kürzlich entlassenen Häftling. Dessen Familie wurde durch einen angeblichen Autounfall getötet. Doch daran glaubt er nicht – er will Rache. Und Thorne weiß, dass es keinen gefährlicheren Killer gibt, als einen, der nichts zu verlieren hat.

Eigentlich sieht es wie ein ganz normaler Mordfall aus — eine Frau wird in ihrer Londoner Wohnung tot aufgefunden. Doch dann findet sich der Fetzen eines Röntgenbildes in der geballten Faust der Leiche. Detective Inspector Tom Thorne ermittelt und findet bald heraus, dass die Mutter des Opfers ebenfalls ermordet wurde. Deren Mord liegt allerdings bereits fünfzehn Jahre zurück. Sie war eines der Opfer des berüchtigten Serienkillers Raymond Garvey. Die Jagd nach Garvey war eine der größten in der Geschichte der Met und endete erst, nachdem sieben Frauen ihren Tod gefunden hatten.

Het motief voor de eerste moord was een raadsel. Tot iemand uit Tom Thornes team van de afdeling Ernstige delicten een stapel brieven vond, gericht aan het slachtoffer, een man die net uit de gevangenis was gekomen. Het was duidelijk dat hij in de val was gelokt. Bij de tweede moord "weer op een ex-gevangene" was niet zozeer het motief een probleem, als wel de vraag wie toegang had tot de databank met de gegevens van gevangenen.

Bij de Pakistaanse kioskhouder Akhtar slaan onverwacht de stoppen door, op een doordeweekse ochtend gijzelt hij twee klanten in zijn Londense buurtwinkel. De rolluiken gaan naar beneden en de slachtoffers, Helen Weeks en Stephen Mitchell, worden vastgeketend aan de verwarmingsbuizen van de bedompte opslagruimte. Helen werkt bij de politie en met haar connecties zijn Akhtars eisen snel overgebracht. Rechercheur Tom Thorne moet de waarheid boven water halen in het reeds afgesloten onderzoek naar de zelfmoord van Akhtars zoon in een jeugdgevangenis.

De Britse rechercheur Tom Thorne is te vaak over de schreef gegaan en draagt daarom weer het politie-uniform. Hij draait zware diensten: hij wordt ingezet op straat en moet bekeuringen uitschrijven of ingrijpen bij vechtpartijen in het uitgaansleven. Als een zelfmoord van een ouder echtpaar in Toms ogen te makkelijk opzij wordt geschoven, duikt hij in zijn vrije tijd dieper in de zaak. Hij moet zijn netwerk gebruiken om toegang te krijgen tot informatiesystemen binnen de recherche, waarmee hij niet alleen zijn eigen baan op het spel zet, maar ook die van degenen die het dichtst bij hem staan.