Love Like Blood (Tom Thorne Novels)

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While we are not, as readers, privy to the murder itself, the ongoing descriptions of the aftermath, the scene with which Tanner is left, are more than enough to make it clear to us what has happened without it being spelled out in all its glory detail. If you can kill your own flesh and blood because something they've done means you don't think you can hold your head up in a temple or in some poxy neighbourhood cafe.

Neither of them, had they been inclined to talk honestly about it, would have claimed it was the best sex they ever had. He agrees but quickly finds that working in such controversial territory is dangerous in more ways than one. There are meetings with parents who appear upset and Thorne and Tanner start to attend religious group meetings that are focusing on hate crimes towards them. I am so familiar with these characters that the books are so easy to read that I look forward to each new book in the series.What puts this novel above Billingham’s other outstanding books is his expert braiding together of a very suspenseful plot with the timely subject of honor killings. here he is back doing what he does best solving crime and crime does not come more topical that Mark Billingham's Love like Blood. In one particular chapter there is a great and memorable moment when D I Tom Thorne is driving down the road singing at the top of his voice. A mighty fine police procedural, and it's a pleasure, as always, to watch Tom sift through clues and intentional misdirection along the journey to find his perps.

And his friendship with Phil Hendricks, and with this book in particular, Hendricks' casual bantering with Tanner, provide the moments of much needed light relief you come to rely upon. The book opens on a fairly traumatic scene, the brutal attack and subsequent murder of DI Nicola Tanner’s partner Susan. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.we forgive him that he enjoys the company of country music and reluctantly accepts the approach of middle age. Could it be that her enquiries within the local Asian community had ruffled one too many of the wrong feathers. It’s an immersive read that kept me gripped throughout and I hardly put my Kindle down whilst I read this story.

The murderer's motive might have something to do with her recent work on a string of cold-case honour killings she believes to be related. Tanner and Thorne confront leaders from the Sikh, Muslim and Hindu communities, though again they don’t really have enough to go on. She knows from Tom Thornes reputation for not playing by the rules, that he is the one she needs to help her with her ongoing investigation.I would like to thank Netgalley and Grove Atlantic for an advance copy of Love Like Blood, the 14th police procedural to feature DI Tom Thorne. Billingham skilfully gets his distaste at the subject across to the reader through Thorne’s reactions, while still leaving them the scope to make their own minds up about what has occurred. It tackles the topical and sensitive issue of honour killings, and Billingham skilfully treads a fine line between different cultures to use the subject in a way that actually both informs the reader and propels this exciting novel. e., long-running, the author must come up with interesting cases, or at least a spin on a case that does not seem too familiar to readers of crime fiction; Billingham is a master at this.