false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179860306m/964993.jpg 964993 9 The fashion in which Mark Billingham has climbed his way to the top of the British crime writing fraternity should cause no one any surprise. His secret (as his latest book, <i>Buried</i>, comprehensively proves) is simple: Billingham's work is always utterly reliable, delivering gritty and authoritative crime fiction writing in which the sense of locale is always spot-on. Here, DI Tom Thorne is asked to help in the case of a teenage boy who has disappeared. He is the son of a once high-ranking police officer (now retired), and Thorne's first endeavour is to ask the father, ex DCI-Mullen, to draw up a list of all those in his past who might have reason to hold a grudge. But then Thorne discovers that there is an omission from the list: a man who has made serious threats to Mullen and his family. And as Billingham's beleaguered hero strains every sinew to track down the boy before he is killed, he has to find out why his ex-police colleague has lied to him. As so often before with Billingham, it's the steady accumulation of disturbing detail that makes this novel so compelling. The author eschews easy thrills, and prefers to involve the reader at a more realistic pace. This is not to say that the book lacks excitement (even Billingham's enemies could hardly accuse him of that), but just that the tension is dispensed in a way that never seems meretricious. Another solid entry in the growing Tom Thorne canon. <p>--<I>Barry Forshaw</I> 1963215 2006 Buried (Tom Thorne, #6) total:120|5:21|4:52|3:41|2:5|1:1| 120 447 204 11 3 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 21:47:08 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 21:50:07 -0700 2008 Billingham, Mark – 4th in series
Little, Brown, 2006, UK Hardcover – ISBN: 0316730505

First Sentence: You think about the kids.

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