The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne Novels)

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DI Tom Thorne knows the psychological profile of such offenders all too well, so when he is tasked with catching a notorious killer of domestic cats, he sees the chance to stop a series of homicides before it happens.

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Mark Billingham on superb form. A finely paced and polished procedural, with twists and turns galore and an ending that will chill your soul' CARA HUNTER Another tough but utterly intriguing entry in one of the best British police detective series going * Winnipeg Free Press * The strength of the DI Thorne novels is in the knowledge that all of this could be real. The closing of the novel will please even the most discerning fan of the police procedural, and leave you yearning for more. ( Crime Fiction Lover) Want something to get the heart racing as you laze by the pool?... A thrilling read not for the faint-hearted One of DI Tom Thorne’s most harrowing cases begins with evidence that someone’s taken to slaughtering…cats.The strength of the DI Thorne novels is in the knowledge that all of this could be real. The closing of the novel will please even the most discerning fan of the police procedural, and leave you yearning for more. Interspersed with their investigations are creepy passages that are presumably about the killer. In fact, the book opens with one: His first book in the Tom Thorne series left a strong impact on me, and I think this is where I really developed a strong love for British crime novels.

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Every device we sell or rent on the musicMagpie Store goes through an extensive in-house refurbishment process to ensure you're getting a great quality device for a great price. Here's everything you need to know! 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. As ever with Billingham, a rich cast of characters and tense situations are marshalled with panache, leading to a final terrifying encounter ( Financial Times) Another tough but utterly intriguing entry in one of the best British police detective series going ( Winnipeg Free Press)Enough feeling, though. There was always enough left, and each time it was as though things were starting to … even out inside him. DI Tom Thorne knows the psychological profile of such offenders all too well, so when he is tasked with catching a notorious killer of domestic cats, he sees the chance to stop a series of homicides before they happen. 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. When the two cases come together in a way that neither could have foreseen, both Thorne and Tanner must risk everything to catch two very different killers"-- It has long been the received wisdom that the corpse-littered career path of the common or garden serial killer—despite the fact that there was no such thing—more often than not began with the killing or torture of animals. Cats, dogs, birds. Together with fire-starting and persistent bed-wetting beyond the age of five, it was one of the telltale traits that made up the so-called Macdonald triad: a set of three behavioural characteristics suggested by an American psychiatrist in the early sixties that might help to identify nascent serial offenders. Groundbreaking ... a gripping, unsensational take on a type of crime that is happening more frequently than many of us realise

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A new Mark Billingham is always a treat and The Killing Habit hurls the reader straight into the action. Thoroughly enjoyable for being so very real.Thorne is certain that a killer who tortures cats, skins them and leaves their bodies for their owners to find on the doorstep will inevitably go further, and may even have killed a person already. But he’s finding it hard to convince anyone in the Met. He finally takes the case to Detective Superintendent Fulton, at his old stomping ground in Kentish Town, to try to convince him to help. With Tanner investigating a different killing, he’s pretty much on his own, the butt of an almost unending string of cat jokes. Morse, Rebus, and now Thorne. The next superstar detective is already with us—don’t miss him.” —Lee Child With this in mind, Thorne heads off to Kentish Town station to coordinate with the police force he’d be working with on the case, knowing he’d have to do a bit of political maneuvering when it comes to DS Simon Fulton. Anyone that’s familiar with this series already knows how much Thorne hates political maneuvering, but it comes with the job.