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Jentas is publishing In the dark (In het duister) in Dutch, Polish, Spanish.

A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister…

One life is wiped out and three more are changed forever: the young man whose finger was on the trigger; an ageing gangster planning a deadly revenge, and the pregnant woman who struggles desperately to uncover the truth. Two weeks away from giving birth, how will she deal with a world where death is an occupational hazard?

In a city where violence can be random or meticulously planned, where teenage gangs clash with career criminals and where loyalty is paid for in blood, anything is possible. Secrets are uncovered as fast as bodies, and the story’s final twist is as breathtakingly surprising as they come.

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The dying hours (Stervensuur) is the eleventh novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish.

It’s been twenty-five years since Tom Thorne last went to work wearing the “Queen’s cloth” but now, having stepped out of line once too often, he’s back in uniform. He’s no longer a detective, and he hates it.

Still struggling to adjust, Thorne becomes convinced that a spate of suicides among the elderly in London are something more sinister. His concerns are dismissed by the Murder Squad he was once part of and he is forced to investigate alone.

Now, unable to trust anybody, Thorne risks losing those closest to him as well as endangering those being targeted by a killer unlike any he has hunted before. A man with nothing to lose and a growing list of victims. A man who appears to have the power to make people take their own lives.

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Good as dead (Ten dode opgeschreven) is the tenth novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish.

The Hostage. Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent’s on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever. It’s the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman.

The Demand. The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding a police officer at gunpoint, he will force the one man who knows more about the case than any other to re-investigate his son’s death. That man is DI Tom Thorne.

The Twist. While Helen fights to stay alive and the body-count rises, Thorne must race against time if he is to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother’s life.

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From the dead (Uit de dood verrezen) is the ninth novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish.

It has been a decade since Alan Langford’s charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife Donna was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and served ten years in prison.

But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband. The man she hates with every fibre of her being – the man she paid to have murdered – seems very much alive and well.

How is it possible that her husband is still alive? Where is he? Who sent the photo, and why?

DI Tom Thorne becomes involved in a case where nothing and no one are what they seem. It will take him much further from his London beat than he has ever been before – and closer to a killer who will do anything to protect his new life.

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Bloodline (Erfelijk belast) is the eighth novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish.

It seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman’s fist – and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary.

Thorne discovers that the victim’s mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead.

When more bodies and more fragments of X-ray are discovered, Thorne has a macabre jigsaw to piece together until the horrifying picture finally emerges. A killer is targeting the children of Raymond Garvey’s victims.

Thorne must move quickly to protect those still on the murderer’s list, but nothing and nobody are what they seem. Not when Thorne is dealing with one of the most twisted killers he has ever hunted…

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Lifeless (Levenloos) is the fifth novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish.

A series of killings

Three men, sleeping rough on London’s mean streets, have been found brutally murdered – each victim kicked to death and found with a GBP20 note pinned to his chest. But were they killed at random, or were they targeted for a reason?

A deadly mission

Tom Thorne is posted to the same streets – working undercover, disguised as a homeless man. In a harsh and harrowing underworld, Thorne discovers the horrifying link between the homeless victims and the perpetrators of a fifteen-year-old atrocity.

A ruthless enemy

Those who know are keeping quiet. But the word on these streets is that the killer is a cop…

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The Burning Girl (Het verbrande meisje) is the fourth novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish.

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 brtal 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…

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Lazybones (Wraakhotel) is the third novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish.

A monster murdered

It’s only ten days since Douglas Remfry’s release from prison, having served seven years for rape, and now he’s dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied with a brown leather belt.

A deadly justice

Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishment of his own.

A case no one wants solved

And when a second sex offender is found dead, DI Tom Thorne knows he has a vicious, calculating viliglante on his hands…

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Scaredy Cat (Dubbelmoord) is the second novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish.

It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube and strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King’s Cross station. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day…

It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them. Finding the body used to be the worst part of the job. Not any more. Now each time a body is found, Thorne must live with the knowledge that somewhere out there is a second victim, waiting to be discovered…

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