Love Like Blood Av Mark Billingham

<p><b>''Groundbreaking and gripping''</b> <b><i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>A BLOODY MESSAGE</b><br><br>As DI Nicola Tanner investigates what appears to be a series of organised killings, her partner Susan is brutally murdered, leaving the detective bereft, and vengeful.<br><br><b>A POWERFUL ALLY</b><br><br>Taken off the case, Tanner enlists the help of DI Tom Thorne to pursue a pair of ruthless killers and the broker handing out the deadly contracts.<br><br><b>A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE</b><br><br>As the killers target their latest victim, Thorne takes the biggest risk of his career and is drawn into a horrifying and disturbing world in which families will do anything to protect their honour.<br><br><b>From number one bestseller Mark Billingham comes a masterful, intense crime novel that pits DI Tom Thorne against an evil beyond comprehension, yet shockingly real</b><i>.</i><br><br>________________<br><br><b>''One of the great series of British crime fiction'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><b><br>''Billingham is a world-class writer'' Karin Slaughter</b></p>