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The Crime
The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne.
The Demand
Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.
The Twist
What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away...but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?
The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne.
The Demand
Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.
The Twist
What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away...but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?
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Alibi313
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Kim McCargo
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“The latest Tom Thorne is excellent as always.”
Kelly Hager
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“Helen Weeks is a police officer with a young child (he's about a year old). She's also just been taken hostage by a convenience store owner who wants to know what really happened to his son. (His son was arrested in a stabbing case and given a much lengthier prison sentence than he deserved---self-defense and no prior record. Then he committed suicide, or so the authorities say. Javed doesn't believe it.) So he takes Helen and another customer hostage and demands that Tom Thorne find out what happened to his son, Amin.
I haven't read any Mark Billingham before and now I'm kicking myself. I don't read many mysteries these days but when a book is blurbed by Gillian Flynn and Michael Connelly, I take notice. (Those are two authors I love and are must-reads for me.)
This is such a thought-provoking premise and the book is incredibly hard to put down. (I actually read it in one day and I'm glad I read it over my Saturday because it would have been painful to have to stop reading, especially as the revelation of what actually happened to Amin became increasingly apparent.)
While it's hard to root for Javed, it's also understandable. He's a man who put his faith in the justice system and was betrayed by it repeatedly. And when people insisted that his son killed himself when he knew that it wasn't true, of course he snapped.
I also loved Tom Thorne, who was as similar to Jack Bauer as any officer I've ever seen. He gets results, even if his methods are unorthodox (and also illegal). There are references to earlier books, I think, but they didn't get in the way of my enjoyment of this novel.
There are apparently nine earlier books in the series. I have a lot of catching up to do.
Highly recommended.”
Jennifer Golden
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“DI Tom Thorne is back and in the hot seat. Detective Constable Helen Weeks from Billingham’s stand-alone novel In the Dark is one of the people taken hostage. The hostage taker, to uncover the truth about his son’s death has tasked Thorne with finding the truth.
I am glad to see the return of the Weeks character; I enjoyed In the Dark and was left wanting more of the character at the end of the book. From the first chapter you are pulled into the case. You will want to jump into the book and help, if only so Thorne can get some rest because that will only happen after the hostages are safe.
With plenty of action, twists and surprises and with a plot that keeps you guessing, you will have hard time putting this down until you finish.”
Erica
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