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The Demands

Mark Billingham

The Crime

The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne.

The Demand

Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.

The Twist

What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away...but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?

Book Details

  • Publisher: Mulholland Books
  • Publish Date: Jan 3rd, 2013
  • Pages: 608
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 1.51in - 1.59lb
  • EAN: 9780316250535
  • Categories: Mystery & Detective - Police ProceduralThrillers - GeneralLiterary

About the Author

Mark Billingham worked as an actor, a TV writer, and a stand-up comedian before becoming one of the most critically acclaimed crime novelists in the world. He lives in North London with his wife and two children.

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Praise for this book

"One of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today."
--Gillian Flynn
"With each of his books, Mark Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don't want to leave."--Michael Connelly