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Name: The bones beneath
Author: Mark Billingham

In the twelfth book of Mark Billingham’s Tom Thorne series, the detective is faced with a formidable adversary, Stuart Nicklin, who insists on showing Thorne where he hid one of his first victims. The reveal takes place on a deserted island off the Welsh coast, a place steeped in legend and isolated from the mainland. As Thorne and his team investigate the island’s ancient burial grounds, they uncover Nicklin’s sinister scheme, which threatens more lives. The investigation forces Thorne to confront a terrible decision he has never imagined he would have to make.

First publish date: 2014

Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural

Authors: Mark Billingham

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