Burning Girl (Tom Thorne Novels)
A MAN WHO KILLS FOR MONEY X marks the spot - and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, DI Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious killer. A BRUTAL VENDETTA This is brutal turf warfare between north London gangs....
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A MAN WHO KILLS FOR MONEY X marks the spot - and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, DI Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious killer. A BRUTAL VENDETTA This is brutal turf warfare between north London gangs. Organised crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else's patch, and that someone is not best pleased. A COP WHO IS PLAYING WITH FIRE And when an X is carved on DI Tom Thorne's front door, he knows the smouldering embers of this case are about to erupt into flames...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780751548969 (0751548960)
Publish date: March 1st 2012
Publisher: Sphere
Pages no: 452
Edition language: English
Series: Tom Thorne (#4)
Innocent gets caught up in gang warfare. More involvement of Chamberlain. Some actions that seemed out of character for Thorne.
It had been years since I read this book, and having read later books in the series recently, I needed to refresh my memory of the story, as it's referenced in later books. This is probably one of the biggest turning points in the Thorne series, and it makes for great reading, the impact the events ...
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