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What the Night Brings by Mark Billingham is the latest mystery in the bestselling Tom Thorne series, and this time, a killer is targeting the police. Is it payback? And is it justified?
“Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime…”
The targeted murder of four officers is only the first in a series of attacks that leaves police scared, angry and, most disturbingly of all, vengeful.
As Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner dig into the reasons for the violence, a deeper darkness begins to emerge: the possibility that these murders are payback. The price paid for an unspeakable betrayal.
To uncover the truth, Thorne will be forced to question everything he stands for. He can trust nobody, and the shocking secrets revealed by one terrible night will fracture his entire world.
Review:
This is book 9 of the series, but the first I have read. And it's a doozy- multiple officers killed for no apparent reason, and no apparent leads. As they look into the victims careers, they find where the officers have been accused of crimes and let go. As they delve deeper, they realize that it's more than just payback by a victim's family. It's retribution and taking out of witnesses. But witnesses to what? As the possibility that more than one person could be involved and more deaths occur, Tom and Nicola realize they have a serious threat to more officers. This page turner takes modern issues and presents them in a different way, that makes for page turning reading! If you love police procedurals, this is a must read!
About the Author:
Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and also won the Sherlock Award for Best Detective Created by a British Author. His books, which include the critically acclaimed Tom Thorne series, have been translated into twenty-five languages and have sold over four million copies. He lives in London.
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