Time Of Death

Author: Mark Billingham

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  • : 19.99 AUD
  • : 9780751566369
  • : Little, Brown Book Group
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  • : September 2016
  • : 198mm X 126mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : September 2016
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  • : Tom Thorne Novels
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Description

Discover the first of the two masterful hit novels adapted for the massive new BBC One Drama series In The Dark, featuring brilliant heroine Helen Weeks.'Clever and inventive'Financial TimesTwo schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up. But this is a place full of secrets, where dangerous truths lie buried.When family man Stephen Bates has been arrested, Helen and her partner Tom Thorne head to the flooded town to support Bates' wife - an old school friend of Helen's - who is living under siege and convinced of her husband's innocence.As residents and media bay for Bates' blood, a decomposing body is found. The police believe they have their murderer, but one man believes otherwise. With a girl still missing, Helen sets herself on a collision course with local police, townsfolk - and a merciless killer.The hugely acclaimed latest novel in Mark Billingham's bestselling series, Love Like Blood, is out now.

Awards

Shortlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2016.

Author description

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Best Crime Novel, and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller, and Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.