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The Demands

By: Mark Billingham
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The Crime: The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is a young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne.

The Demand: Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.

The Twist: What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away... but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?

©2012 Mark Billingham (P)2012 Hachette Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction England

Critic reviews

"Ingeniously constructed... this great novel should put Billingham in the same league as Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, John Harvey and Denise Mina. A breakthrough novel." ( Kirkus)
"Tom Thorne is the new superstar detective.... Mark Billingham is the new-wave leader of crime fiction." (Lee Child )
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I really enjoyed the story and as with most of this genre (My favorite type of audible books) it was only slightly predictable. I did not agree with the one star rating. It is as good and as bad as most others in genre, escape listening with no lingering impression.

Fair, worth the credit

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Enjoyed the continuing story of DI Tom Thorne. Too much time has past since the last Thorne novel. I hope a the next novel doesn't leap ahead too much.

Great Read

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DI Thorne is not an unusual character for British crime fiction but he is enjoyable. I got caught up with the BBC televised mini series and then latched onto the books. Both are time well spent.

Thorne worth reading

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I like Mark Billingham's writing, both in the Tom Thorne and other books. Thorne is even more the maverick than other "cops with an attitude." It's a genre all it's own with troubled, break every rule, but highly intuitive police officers. And I like the genre. Thorne goes 'way over the top in this one. For good, compassionate reasons perhaps, but still... A touch of reality doesn't hurt from time to time .

Thorne makes me crazy but I love the books!

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