Tom Thorne Series by Mark Billingham

4.03 · 307 ratings
  • Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne #1)
    #1

    Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne #1)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings · published 2001

    Detective Inspector Tom Thorne now knows that three murdered young women were a killer's mistakes -- and that Alison was his triumph. And unless Thorne can enter the mind of a brilliant madman -- a frighteningly elusive fiend who enjoys toying with the police as much as he savors his sick obsession -- Alison Willetts will not be the last victim consigned forever to a hideous waking hell... more

  • Scaredy Cat (Tom Thorne #2)
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    Scaredy Cat (Tom Thorne #2)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2001

    It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day??? It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion... more

  • Lazybones (Tom Thorne #3)
    #3

    Lazybones (Tom Thorne #3)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2003

    A MONSTER MURDEREDIt's only ten days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt.A DEADLY JUSTICESomeone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishment of his own... more

  • The Burning Girl (Tom Thorne #4)
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    The Burning Girl (Tom Thorne #4)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2004

    The Barnes & Noble ReviewTom Thorne is back -- and as angst-ridden as ever -- in the fourth installment of Mark Billingham's brilliantly brutal saga featuring the gritty London detective inspector (Sleepyhead, Scaredy Cat, and Lazybones). In The Burning Girl, Thorne teams up with retired detective Carol Chamberlain to help solve a horrific 20-year-old crime that ties in with an ongoing war between gangland families... more

  • Lifeless (Tom Thorne #5)
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    Lifeless (Tom Thorne #5)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2005

    It appears that someone is targeting London's homeless community so DI Tom Thorne goes undercover amongst them. The information he gleans is that this is no random killer, it is someone with a specific list of victims.

  • Buried (Tom Thorne #6)
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    Buried (Tom Thorne #6)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2006

    A MISSING BOY Teenager Luke Mullen was last seen getting into a car with an older woman. No one can understand why he has disappeared. His father - a former police officer - knows all too well that the longer he is missing, the more likely he is to turn up dead. A TERRIFYING VIDEO Then Luke's parents receive an anonymous video. It shows their son, eyes wide with terror, as a man advances towards him holding a syringe. A RACE AGAINST TIME DI Tom Thorne recognises a psychopath when he sees one... more

  • Death Message (Tom Thorne #7)
    #7

    Death Message (Tom Thorne #7)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2007

    Thorne looked at the picture, feeling the pulse quicken at the side of his neck. There were times when he couldn't see what was staring him in the face, but this, for better or worse, was his area of expertise. Thorne knew a dead man when he saw him.Delivering the "death message." That's what cops call those harrowing moments when they must tell someone that a loved one has been killed... more

  • Bloodline (Tom Thorne #8)
    #8

    Bloodline (Tom Thorne #8)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2009

    DI Tom Thorne is back...It seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary.Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead... more

  • From the Dead (Tom Thorne #9)
    #9

    From the Dead (Tom Thorne #9)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2010

    It has been a decade since Alan Langford’s charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife Donna was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and served ten years in prison.But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband... more

  • Good As Dead (Tom Thorne #10)
    #10

    Good As Dead (Tom Thorne #10)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2011

    The Hostage. Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman. The Demand. The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody... more

  • The Dying Hours (Tom Thorne #11)
    #11

    The Dying Hours (Tom Thorne #11)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2013

    A fantastic, never-before-published Tom Thorne novel by England's crime king.It's been twenty-five years since Tom Thorne last went to work wearing the "Queen's cloth" but now, having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform. He's no longer a detective, and he hates it.Still struggling to adjust, Thorne becomes convinced that a spate of suicides among the elderly in London are something more sinister... more

  • The Bones Beneath (Tom Thorne #12)
    #12

    The Bones Beneath (Tom Thorne #12)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2014

    The Bones Beneath, the twelfth novel in the internationally bestselling Tom Thorne series shows Thorne facing perhaps the most dangerous killer he has ever put away, Stuart Nicklin. When Nicklin announces that he wishes to reveal the whereabouts of one of his earliest victims and that he wants the cop who caught him to be there when he does it, it becomes clear that Thorne’s life is about to become seriously unpleasant... more

  • Time of Death (Tom Thorne #13)
    #13

    Time of Death (Tom Thorne #13)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2015

    Time Of Death…The MissingTwo schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up and from which she long ago escaped. But this is a place full of secrets, where dangerous truths lie buried... more

  • Love Like Blood (Tom Thorne #14)
    #14

    Love Like Blood (Tom Thorne #14)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2017

    This riveting novel marks the return of series character Tom Thorne as he pairs up with the perfectionist Detective Inspector Nicola Tanner on an investigation that ventures into politically sensitive territory. Tanner needs help. Her partner Susan has been brutally murdered, and Tanner is convinced that it was a case of mistaken identity and that she was the real target... more

  • The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne #15)
    #15

    The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne #15)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2018

    From “one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today” (Gillian Flynn), The Killing Habit again brings together favorite wild-card detective Tom Thorne and straight-laced DI Nicola Tanner on a pair of lethally high-stakes cases.While DI Nicola Tanner investigates the deadly spread of a dangerous new drug, Tom Thorne is handed a case that he doesn’t take too seriously, until a spate of animal killings points to the work of a serial killer... more

  • Their Little Secret (Tom Thorne #16)
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    Their Little Secret (Tom Thorne #16)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2019

    When DI Tom Thorne is called to conduct a routine assessment at the site of a suicide, he expects to be in and out in no time. But when he arrives at the metro station, where a woman named Philippa Goodwin threw herself in front of an underground train, Thorne inexplicably senses something awry and feels compelled to dig deeper. He soon discovers that she was the victim of a callous con-man who preys on vulnerable women, and whose deception plunged Philippa to her end... more

  • Cry Baby (Tom Thorne #17)
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    Cry Baby (Tom Thorne #17)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2020

    IIt's 1996. Detective Sergeant Tom Thorne is a haunted man. Haunted by the moment he ignored his instinct about a suspect, by the horrific crime that followed and by the memories that come day and night, in sunshine and shadow.So when seven-year-old Kieron Coyne goes missing while playing in the woods with his best friend, Thorne vows he will not make the same mistake again. Cannot.The solitary witness. The strange neighbour. The friendly teacher. All are in Thorne's sights... more

  • What the Night Brings (Tom Thorne #19)
    #19

    What the Night Brings (Tom Thorne #19)

    Mark Billingham

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2025

    What the Night Brings by Mark Billingham is the latest mystery in the bestselling Tom Thorne series, and this time, a killer is targeting the police. Is it payback? And is it justified?“Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime . . .”The targeted murder of four officers is only the first in a series of attacks that leaves police scared, angry and, most disturbingly of all, vengeful... more

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