Love Like Blood (Tom Thorne Novels)

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A novel that probes the phenomenon of honor killings and casts doubt on the work of the Metropolitan Police's Honor Crimes Unit. I was a little confused with the chapter that indicated that a body had been found in a reservoir and there was only a minor reference to explain this later on. Written by Mark Billingham — It must be easy for a series author to fall into a pattern, giving us murder by numbers and keeping an established audience happy with a book a year.

Racing towards a twist-filled ending, Love Like Blood is another feat of masterful plotting from one of Britain's top crime novelists. The book contains all the usual elements of a successful thriller - there are hit men, red herrings galore, more twists than a Curly Wurly and above all an engaging team in Thorne and Tanner. The rapid pace of the book never slows and it is apparent how profoundly occurrences of honor based violence have affected Billingham. It appears that the Brits, in addition to avoidance of guns even in novels, are also very poor shots on the rare occasion they take aim. the reviews i read were admiring his out of the main police stream but i found only his t-shirt and living in the south bank of london as signs for this.

And the conclusion of the case is as heart thumpingly tense as it satisfying and yet also, at times, surreally calm. I have given it more than 1 star because it was fairly quick to read and I think someone else might possibly just be able to enjoy it but it wasn't for me at all.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Now I don’t know anybody who wouldn’t have been moved and indeed horrified by the true story of Banaz Mahmod and the way in which she suffered at the hands of family for the simple act of falling in love with the wrong man. The result is an intelligent and hugely entertaining thriller that treats its subject with sensitivity.This novel features the topic of honour killings which Mark has written extremely sensitively without detracting from the horror that this is something which is happening with shocking regularity in the UK. A gripping, unsensational take on a type of crime that is happening more frequently than many of us realise. I really love the way in which his relationship with Helen and her son Alfie, and the scenes where he begins to think about the future will truly melt your hardened heart. In Tom Thorne's 14th instalment we welcome back DI Nicola Tanner who first appeared in the standalone Die Of Shame. Her family had all had cast-iron alibis which Thorne had been unable to break and her murder is still unsolved.