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The Burning Girl Tom Thorne Series, Book 4

The past and present are fused together when DI Tom Thorne investigates a gangland murder that is connected to a twenty-year-old case.

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  • "The burning girl"@it
  • "Burning girl"@pl
  • "Burning girl"@it

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  • "The past and present are fused together when DI Tom Thorne investigates a gangland murder that is connected to a twenty-year-old case."@en
  • "A series of brutal gangland slayings -- each victim found with an X gouged into his back -- has Thorne plunging into the fires of a deadly turf war, as he attempts to tie together the threads of perplexing crimes separated by decades. But time is rapidly running out in his search for a copycat who revels in blood and pain -- because the body count keeps rising ... and someone has carved an X into Tom Thorne's front door ..."@en
  • "Een inspecteur van politie probeert de Londense onderwereld in toom te houden en speurt naar de ware toedracht van een twintig jaar oude zaak."
  • "Quatrième enquête de l'inspecteur Thorne, au cours de laquelle il devra mettre un terme à une guerre des gangs entre Irlandais, Turcs et Kurdes."
  • "A MAN WHO KILLS FOR MONEY. 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 killer. A BRUTAL VENDETTA. This is brutal 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. A COP WHO IS PLAYING WITH FIRE. And when an X is carved on DI Tom Thorne's front door, he knows the smouldering embers of this case are about to erupt into flames..."@en
  • "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.Visit the author's website at..."@en
  • "Some fires never go out ... X marks the spot -- and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector 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. Organized crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else's territory, and that someone is ready to stand up for what he believes is his. Thorne's got plenty on his plate when he agrees to help out ex-DCI Carol Chamberlain rake through the ashes of an old case that has come back to haunt her. Schoolgirl Jessica Clarke was lit on fire twenty years ago. Now, Gordon Rooker, the man Chamberlain put away for the crime, is up for parole, and it seems there's a copycat on the prowl. Or perhaps it's someone trying to right a serious wrong: Jessica Clarke was the victim of mistaken identity. The intended target was the daughter of a gangland boss, a woman who would grow up to marry the current leader, Billy Ryan ... Thorne quickly identifies a tenuous link between the two crimes, and past and present fuse together to form a new, horrifying riddle. One that involves more killings, violence, greed, and a murderous family with no values -- except gain at any price. When an X is carved into his front door, Tom Thorne realizes that fires, once thought to be out, continue to burn."@en
  • "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 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."
  • "Enmeshed in a case involving a contract killer and a turf war between organized crime bosses, detective Thom Thorne discovers a disturbing link between both cases and a ring of protection rackets."@en
  • "Enmeshed in a case involving a contract killer and a turf war between organized crime bosses, detective Thom Thorne discovers a disturbing link between both cases and a ring of protection rackets."
  • "The fourth D.I. Thorne novel from the bestselling author of SLEEPYHEAD, SCAREDY CAT and LAZY BONES, in which a 20-year-old turf war between London gangs threatens to ignite again."@en

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  • "Adventure"@en
  • "Powieść kryminalna angielska"@pl
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Roman policier"
  • "Thriller / suspense"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en

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  • "Podpalona"@pl
  • "Podpalona"
  • "Torche humaine"
  • "The Burning girl"
  • "Den brændende pige"@da
  • "Blutzeichen Roman"
  • "Segni di sangue"@it
  • "Segni di sangue"
  • "The Burning Girl Tom Thorne Series, Book 4"@en
  • "The burning girl"
  • "The burning girl"@en
  • "Den brinnande flickan"@sv
  • "Het verbrande meisje"
  • "The burning girl : [DI Tom Thorne series]"

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