false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179860307m/964995.jpg 964995 11 Thorne knew when he was looking at something out of the ordinary. This was a significant murder scene. This was the work of a killer driven by something special, something spectacular ... He looked at the dead man on the bed -- the position of him, as if he were praying ... Thorne guessed that at the end, he probably had been. The body is found in the grubbiest of North London hotel rooms. Kneeling, naked on a bare mattress, the head is hooded and the hands tied tight with a brown leather belt. And then there's the oddest detail of all: the call from the florist to check arrangements about the wreath ... It's been only ten days since convicted rapist Douglas Remfry was released from prison. Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to hand out some punishment of his own. When a second sex offender is discovered dead, the police believe they have a vicious, calculating vigilante on their hands. But how does the killer lure his victims to their deaths? Who do the victims think they are going to meet in these hotel rooms? And then the police find the letters... Detective Inspector Tom Thorne always works best when his emotions are involved in the case, when his anger flares him into action -- but he's having trouble finding any sympathy for the dead. It is only as his investigation continues that Thorne finally discovers a victim worth fighting for, a victim whose identity becomes crucial to cracking this most twisted of cases... From its chilling opening to its shocking climax, <i>Lazybones</i> confirms Mark Billingham's place as one of today's master storytellers and is certain to be one of the most thrilling and talked-about suspense novels of the year. 1238796 2003 Lazybones (Tom Thorne, #3) total:149|5:0|4:3|3:2|2:0|1:0| 149 593 227 10 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 14:05:28 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 14:06:28 -0700 2007 Billingham, Mark – 3rd in series
Little, Brown, 2003, UK Hardcover – ISBN: 0316724939
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Morose wisecracking detective Tom Thorne is back in stand-up comic Billingham's third police procedural slash mystery, Lazybones, and his luck just isn't getting any better. This time, there's a serial killer preying on rapists who have recently b...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:50:27 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 09:29:15 -0700 2009
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