To his friends, his foes and even to himself it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. On his last case he had seriously over-stepped the mark, and now gardening leave has been suggested and all he has to tend is a window box. So when it appears someone is targeting London's homeless community it seems pefectly natural for Thorne to take a step nearer to the gutter and go undercover amongst them. He blends into the sometimes invisble community easily - too easily perhaps - but the information he gleans quickly proves that this is no random killer, it is someone with a very distinct purpose and a very specific list of victims, only the team supporting Thorne from the outside don't have the key to motive or identity. Then somehow the fact that a policeman is working under cover becomes public knowledge … With acute observation of character and place, combined with his acknowledged mastery of plotting, LIFELESS raises the Thorne series to an even higher level.
- 'Complex, thought-provoking and, in parts, very funny … a tour de force' OBSERVER
- 'Assured and shocking thriller.' GUARDIAN
- 'A cunning variation on the serial-murder theme.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
- 'Scary, pell-mell, cliff-hanging thriller.' LITERARY REVIEW
- 'This is a self-assured and thought-provoking thriller.' DAILY EXPRESS
- 'LIFELESS is a cracking read.' IRISH EXAMINER
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Published 01/05/2006
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