Billingham, Mark
Scaredy Cat (Tom Thorne #2) by Mark Billingham
Scaredy Cat (Tom Thorne #2) by Mark Billingham
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It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the Tube and 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. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them. Finding the body used to be the worst part of the job. Not any more. Now each time a body is found, Thorne must live with the knowledge that somewhere out there is a second victim, waiting to be discovered.
But while the methods might be the same, the manner of the killings is strikingly different and Thorne comes to realise that he is hunting two very different killers. One is ruthless and in control, while his partner in crime is submissive, compliant, terrified. Thorne must catch a man whose need to manipulate is as great as his need to kill; a man who will threaten those closest to Thorne himself; a man who will show him that the ability to inspire terror, is the deadliest weapon of all . . .
Brutally black, psychologically sharp, Scaredy Cat is twice as tense, twice as shocking, twice as compelling as any thriller you'll read this year.
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It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer chose his target at Euston station, followed her and strangled her to death. The victim wasn't his first. A few months earlier another woman was selected and stabbed to death in North London The only thing more terrifying than a serial killer on the loose is two of them, murdering in tandem . . . |
The killer chose his target at King's Cross station, followed and strangled her to death. The victim wasn't his first. A few months earlier another woman was selected and stabbed to death in South London The only thing more terrifying than a serial killer on the loose is two of them, murdering in tandem . . . |
Genres: Crime - Mystery - Thriller - Detective - Mystery Thriller - British Literature - Police
Condition: Very good
Published: 2002 by Little, Brown
Pages: 373
ISBN: 0316859532
Weight: 420g
