Book description
Jessica Clarke had been set alight twenty years ago. Her attacker,
quickly tracked down and eager to confess, was still in jail, his career
as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is
harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer in that case, and
claiming that he is the one who burned the girl? Now retired, Carol
turns to DI Tom Thorne for help. He's up to his neck in an investigation
into a series of killings, which appears to be the result of a turf war
between rival gangs, and he's fed up to the gills with reporting to DCI
Tughan, so helping Carol out looks like a good deed in a naughty world.
Only the world is about to turn much nastier, so nasty in fact that he
finds himself longing for a straightforward psycopath to hunt down. In
Mark Billingham's fourth novel, he explores the effects of violence and
greed on the lives of those who exploit their fellow beings in a novel
of exceptional power. Mark Billingham is a stand-up comedian,
appearing regularly at the Comedy Store. He has been awarded the 2003
Sherlock Award as the creator of the Best Detective created by a British
writer and the inaugural Theakston's Old Peculier Award for the best
crime novel of the year for LAZYBONES.
