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Tom Thorne is back -- and as angst-ridden as ever -- in the fourth installment of Mark Billingham's brilliantly brutal saga featuring the gritty London detective inspector (Sleepyhead, Scaredy Cat, and Lazybones). In The Burning Girl, Thorne teams up with retired detective Carol Chamberlain to help solve a horrific 20-year-old crime that ties in with an ongoing war between gangland families.
Thorne is investigating an escalating turf war between two major underworld factions -- specifically, murders involving an assassin-for-hire who marks his victims by carving a large X into their backs with what appears to be a filleting knife -- when he gets a disturbing call from Chamberlain concerning an old crime involving a madman who inexplicably set a young girl on fire.
