Mark Billingham has twice received the Theakton's Old Peculiar Award for the Best Crime Novel of the Year and has won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective Created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times Bestseller, and the first has been made into a hit TV series. In this installment, Detective Thorne must figure out who is enticing young women and then murdering them. "The victims suffer death due to constriction of the basilar artery. Some maniac was targeting women...pumping them full of drugs, and giving them strokes." One of them, Alison, survives the attack and now manifests the Locked-In Syndrome. Is it possible that this was what the perpetrator intended? Obviously the murderer has medical knowledge and skill. Detective Thorne suspects Dr. Jeremy Bishop and he is determined to get him. Haunted by ghosts from the past, Thorne's relentless pursuit, dogged determination, romantic interests, and co-worker dynamics make for a great mystery, even if you do figure out the culprit before he does.
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