The Burning Girl
The Burning Girl by Mark Billingham is a gripping reprint published by Avon in 2006, featuring 400 pages in English. This novel follows ex-Detective Chief Inspector Carol Chamberlain as she grapples with a horrific schoolyard crime from twenty years prior. Despite an alleged perpetrator’s confession and imprisonment, the case continues to haunt her, prompting her to enlist DI Tom Thorne to uncover unsettling truths buried in the past.
Readers will find themselves immersed in a complex narrative that intertwines a series of brutal gangland slayings with the unresolved mysteries of the past. As Thorne delves into a deadly turf war, he faces a copycat killer who seems to take pleasure in the violence, raising the stakes as the body count escalates. The story explores themes of crime and investigation within the backdrop of London, making it a compelling addition to the mystery and detective genre.
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Once burned . . .
By rights, the horrific schoolyard crime should have been laid to rest twenty years ago. An alleged perpetrator confessed and now is growing old behind bars. But the case still haunts ex-Detective Chief Inspector Carol Chamberlain — and she has asked DI Tom Thorne to uncover a disturbing truth that lies buried in the ashes.
A series of brutal gangland slayings — each victim found with an X gouged into his back — has Thorne plunging into the fires of a deadly turf war, as he attempts to tie together the threads of perplexing crimes separated by decades. But time is rapidly running out in his search for a copycat who revels in blood and pain — because the body count keeps rising . . . and someone has carved an X into Tom Thorne’s front door.
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