Mark Billingham THE BURNING GIRL PB2004 **GC**

GOOD CONDITION – AS SHOWN – MINOR SCUFFING AROUND EDGES OF COVER – PAGES SLIGHTLY YELLOWED

MARK BILLINGHAM – THE BURNING GIRL – PAPERBACK – 2004 – COVER PRICE £6.99 – 436 PAGES – X marks the spot - & when that spot is a corpse’s naked back & the X is carved in blood – DI Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract killer – This is turf warfare between North London gangs – Organised crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else’s patch & that someone is not best pleased – For Thorne, a tenuous link between two cases becomes two pieces of the same puzzle: past & present fuse together to form a new & very nasty riddle – And when an X is carved on Thorne’s front door, he knows that the smouldering embers of a long-dead case are about to erupt into flames…

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