A MISSING BOY Teenager Luke Mullen was last seen getting into a car with an older woman. No one can understand why he has disappeared. His father – a former police officer – knows all too well that the longer he is missing, the more likely he is to turn up dead. A TERRIFYING VIDEO Then Luke’s parents receive an anonymous video. It shows their son, eyes wide with terror, as a man advances towards him holding a syringe. A RACE AGAINST TIME DI Tom Thorne recognises a psychopath when he sees one. And the scene on the tape chills him to the bone – he knows that a child’s life hangs in the balance, and that every minute counts…The sixth hard-hitting Thorne thrillerAbout the AuthorMark Billingham has twice won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, and a new series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death will be broadcast on BBC1 in 2017. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.ReviewsMurder and mystery do not come better than this What’s on in London A brisk, racy read The Times Assured and shocking thriller The Guardian A cunning variation on the serial-murder theme Sunday TelegraphAwardsShort-listed for Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780751548563Author Mark BillinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint SpherePublisher Little, Brown Book GroupWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 128mm * 35mm