Gritty, fierce, and moving, here is a must-read for anyone who likes their crime fiction unflinching and unforgettable. He would love to play Thorne again and I would love him to play Thorne again but we don't know when that will be. But that future is cruelly snatched away from them as a shocking incident sees Paul die and a devastated Helen forced to expose herself to the dangerous world of organised crime. Fortunately, the pace of the story and the high action level prevented me from worrying about this too much.

Billingham produces an astonishing final twist to complete his most ambitious and most accomplished book. He's like a pumped-up three year old, having just figured out that not giving his older siblings his candy is a possibility, and he uses it EVERYWHERE. The worst part is that when the answers start to come, at last, after about three hundred and FIFTY damn pages, it is so damn predictable.Helen and Paul are joined by pathologist friend Phil Hendricks as they become further embroiled in the abduction case.

The hugely acclaimed latest novel in Mark Billingham's bestselling series, Love Like Blood , is out now. A Shocking Twist, in a city where violence can be random or meticulously planned, where teenage gangs clash with career criminals and where loyalty is paid for in blood, nything is possible. The author keeps it authentic with these characters speaking their local English slang, which took me almost a quarter of the book to get used to, and to understand.Starting it off with the crime before backpedalling is Twattingham's first mistake, making us frustrated only fifteen pages into a book. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.