The Burning Girl
Mark Billingham
NEW
ISBN:0316725749
Little Brown, London, 2004. Hardback. 1st Edition, 1st Impression. Fine in fine dustwrapper. New. Unread copy. Tight and clean copy. Not inscribed or price-clipped.
Fourth in the Detective Inspector Thorne series, set in London.
X marks the spot - and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, DI Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract killer. It's morbid and messy - but it's a mystery with plenty of clues. This is turf warfare between North London gangs. Organised crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else's patch, and that someone is not best pleased. Thorne's already got plenty on his plate when he agrees to help out ex-DCI Carol Cham.
