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EN BLODIG BESKJED ... EN MEKTIG ALLIANSE ... EN DØDELIG KONSPIRASJONDa førstebetjent Nicola Tanners samboer Susan blir funnet brutalt drept, ber hun politietterforsker Tom Thorne om hjelp. Tanner er overbevist om at det var hun selv som var det egentlige målet, og at motivet er et knippe gamle æresdrapssaker hun har jobbet med.Da et ungt par forsvinner, dukker det opp ledetråder som kan knyttes til de gamle sakene, men det blir raskt klart at å etterforske noe så kontroversielt som æresdrap er farlig på mer enn én måte ...Basert på en sann historie.«Billingham vet nøyaktig hvordan man bygger opp en historie, inviterer deg inn, og låser så døren bak deg.» Michael Connelly, forfatter«Fengslende og nøkternt om en type kriminalitet som er mer utbredt enn vi tror.»Sunday Times«Modig, aktuell og viktig, og like ubehagelig å lese som umulig å la være.»Heat

Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Having seriously crossed the line on his last case and depressed over the recent suspicious death of his father, the once ambitious police detective has been reduced to pushing papers . . . and is being encouraged to take a prolonged leave of duty.But someone is stalking the city's most destitute citizens. Three homeless men have recently been kicked to death, each brutalized corpse discovered with a banknote pinned to its chest. With nothing to lose, Thorne volunteers to try to find the killer?taking to the streets he knows so well from his days as beat policeman and as a homicide detective, but this time joining the squalid ranks of life's rejects. In this harsh and harrowing netherworld, with its own rules and moral codes, a shocking link between the brutal crimes and a fifteen-year-old atrocity could end up costing Thorne what little life he has left.

Luke Mullen, the missing teenage son of a former police officer, was last seen getting into a car with an older woman. No one knows whether he went willingly or was abducted, whether he's living or dead.Then the videotape arrives . . .On special assignment, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is in charge of the investigation into Luke's disappearance. But it's the information that Tony Mullen, the boy's father, is not freely sharing that Thorne finds particularly disturbing?like the names of dangerous criminals who have openly threatened the tough ex-detective and his entire family. Something shocking and deadly may well be buried deep in old cases and past lives. But Thorne knows he doesn't have the luxury of time to dig?especially when a kidnapper brutally demonstrates that he is willing to kill.