Dr Phil Coburn, for his expert advice, sick mind and champagne moments; Carol Bristow, for help with matters of police procedure; Professor Sebastian Lucas at St Thomas's Hospital; Nick Jordan, Bernadette Ford and David Holdstock at the Metropolitan Police Press Office; Caroline Allum; Hilary Hale, my brilliant editor, and all at Little, Brown for their boundless enthusiasm; Sarah Lutyens, my agent, for the furniture; Rachel Daniels at London Management; Peter Cocks for pictures; Howard Pratt for sounds; Mike Gunn for jokes; Paul Thorne for in-flight reading.
And my mother, Pat Thompson, for thirty-nine years. Remember what you said about shouting in bookshops…
Read on for the opening chapters of The Dying Hours, the eleventh novel in the Tom Thorne series
"Billingham is one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today."-Gillian Flynn
Available in Hardcover August 2013!
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