Billingham has few equals in moulding convincing characters and his finest creation Thorne is in top form .

In Love Like Blood I have tried to display the utmost respect for Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and for those who practice their religions peacefully. Whatever the reason, for obvious reasons Tanner can't investigate the murder herself and instead turns to Tom Thorne, a man who she has met only briefly and knows more by reputation, to help her find the answers she so desperately seeks. The idea of honour killings – be it for love or some other inferred shame – is the central premise of this book.Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, and a new series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death will be broadcast on BBC1 in 2017. Her partner Susan has been brutally murdered, and Tanner is convinced that it was a case of mistaken identity and that she was the real target. It appears that the Brits, in addition to avoidance of guns even in novels, are also very poor shots on the rare occasion they take aim. Her family had all had cast-iron alibis which Thorne had been unable to break and her murder is still unsolved.

They endanger other people's lives by not sharing their theories, they have ridiculous tactics and barely seem to do any work. It deals with the subject of honour killings and really opened my eyes to what this entails and it is shocking the lengths families will go to in the name of protecting their image and their faith. Don’t come into it looking for outright condemnation and contempt at the practice of honour killing, although that is most certainly the context of the novel. But we knew there would be something special about Love Like Blood, Mark Billingham’s 14th DI Tom Thorne novel, when we received an extraordinary letter with our early copy of the book.Tanner's live-in partner was recently blinded with bleach then stabbed to death at their home in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Sans doute Mark Billingham aurait-il pu se montrer plus incisif, mais poser le problème n'est déjà pas si mal. Tanner seems completed unbothered that people want to kill her and barely seems touched by her partner being killed. A novel that probes the phenomenon of honor killings and casts doubt on the work of the Metropolitan Police's Honor Crimes Unit.