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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.

It has been a decade since Alan Langford's charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife, Donna, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and served 10 years in prison. But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband. The man she hates with every fibre of her being - the man she paid to have murdered - seems very much alive and well. How is it possible that her husband is still alive?

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder.... Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked couples return home, they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better.

As DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner, Susan, is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft - and vengeful. Taken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts. As the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world in which families will do anything to protect their honour.

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?

Teenager Luke Mullen was last seen getting into a car with an older woman. No one can understand why he has disappeared. His father - a former police officer - knows all too well that the longer he is missing, the more likely he is to turn up dead. Then Luke's parents receive an anonymous video. It shows their son, eyes wide with terror, as a man advances towards him holding a syringe. DI Tom Thorne recognises a psychopath when he sees one. And the scene on the tape chills him to the bone - he knows that a child's life hangs in the balance and that every minute counts.

Tom Thorne is back in charge - but there's a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried 25 years before. But only if Thorne agrees to escort him. Unable to refuse, Thorne gathers a team and travels to a remote Welsh island, at the mercy of the weather and cut off from the mainland. Thorne is determined to get the job done and return home before Nicklin can outwit them.

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?

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.

The Sounds of Crime is an exclusive collection of five brand new short stories by some of the best crimewriters around. Using the theme of 'audio', this unique collection features brand new stories by Lawrence Block, Peter James, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham and Christopher Fowler.

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.

Audible exclusive. Mark Billingham joins us to talk about his new book, Die of Shame. Who will die? Who will be betrayed? Who will kill? Talking about stepping out of his comfort zone to keep it fresh, the challenges of writing a series and much, much more. About Die of Shame: 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.

L'anticonformista detective Declan Miller è tornato al lavoro dopo che sua moglie, anche lei detective (e compagna di ballo amatoriale) è stata assassinata. Alla coppia viene affidata l'indagine su un doppio omicidio: il rampollo della famiglia malavitosa Adrian Cutler e il consulente informatico Barry Shepherd sono stati entrambi uccisi al Sands Hotel, in due stanze a pochi metri l'una dall'altra.

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....

Małym miasteczkiem Polesford, w którym dorastała funkcjonariuszka Helen Weeks, wstrząsa tragedia – zaginięcie dwóch nastolatek. Gdy do prasy przecieka informacja o aresztowaniu statecznego męża i ojca rodziny, Stephena Batesa, Helen wraz z detektywem Thorne’em przybywa po latach w rodzinne strony, by odkryć prawdę o uprowadzeniach, ale też zmierzyć się z własną mroczną przeszłością. Okazuje się, że żoną podejrzanego jest przyjaciółka Helen z lat szkolnych, która potrzebuje wsparcia w tej niezwykle trudnej sytuacji.

Een regenachtige avond in een achterbuurt in Zuid-Londen. Vijf tieners wachten in een auto op hun prooi. De eerste de beste passerende automobilist zal het slachtoffer worden van een dodelijke initiatierite. Het is het begin van een bloedstollend verhaal waarin niets is wat het lijkt. Het speelt zich af in een gewelddadige stad, waar jeugdbendes slaags raken met professionele criminelen en waar loyaliteit in mensenlevens wordt betaald. Geheimen worden ontsluierd in hetzelfde tempo waarmee er nieuwe slachtoffers vallen. De adembenemende en verrassende ontknoping van In het duister blijft tot het einde onvoorspelbaar.

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.