Burning Girl by Mark Billingham

A MAN WHO KILLS FOR
MONEY
X marks the spot – and when that spot is a corpse’s naked back
and 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 killer.
A BRUTAL
VENDETTA
This is brutal turf warfare between north London gangs.
Organised crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else’s patch, and that
someone is not best pleased.
A COP WHO IS PLAYING WITH
FIRE
And when an X is carved on DI Tom Thorne’s front door, he knows
the smouldering embers of this case are about to erupt into
flames…