The Murder Book : The incredibly dramatic Sunday Times Tom Thorne bestseller

TOM THORNE IS BACK . . . AND SO IS HIS WORST NIGHTMAREA gripping, grisly read.

Mark Billingham is a terrific crime writer' ----- ANTHONY HOROWITZTom Thorne has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side.

He finally has a love life worth a damn and is happy in the job to which he has devoted his life... He has everything to lose. Hunting the woman responsible for a series of grisly murders, Thorne has no way of knowing that he will be plunged into a nightmare from which he may never wake. And he'll do anything to keep it. Finally, Thorne's past has caught up with him and a ruinous secret is about to be revealed.

If he wants to save himself and his friends, he must do the unthinkable. PRAISE FOR MARK BILLINGHAM'Mark Billingham is a master of psychology'Ian Rankin'Fast-paced and twisting'Paula Hawkins'At the very least it should reach the shortlist of this year's Booker prize'The Times