Love Like Blood

Mark Billingham

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'Groundbreaking and gripping' Sunday Times

A BLOODY MESSAGE

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.

A POWERFUL ALLY

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.

A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

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.

From number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real.

'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times

'Billingham is a world-class writer' Karin Slaughter

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Praise for Love Like Blood

  • Billingham produces an astonishing final twist to complete his most ambitious and most accomplished book - Sunday Telegraph on In the DarkHis [Billingham's] storylines of murders that go unseen or unrecognised are chilling and moving, and Tom Thorne is on terrific form - The Times[A] sensitive topic delicately handled, with a perfectly executed and thoroughly unnerving twist at the end - The GuardianGroundbreaking ... a gripping, unsensational take on a type of crime that is happening more frequently than many of us realise - Sunday TimesIrascible, irritating and indefatigable...Billingham's passionate depiction of the injustice and brutality that flow from these killings spills from every page, making this one of his most powerful crime novels, written with a fury that does both him and Thorne justice - Daily MailThe author's rage, combined with his skill as a crime writer, makes this a gripping and genuinely tragic story - Literary Review

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Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British writer and in 2026 he was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.

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