"Times" (UK)Ī real contender for the title of nation s top crime writer. Billingham is brilliant with both characters and narrative and he s at his very best in this very sad tale of love and loss.
Mark Billingham takes us on a very unhappy holiday in this sizzling thriller that starts in Florida and moves back to Britain. The twists and turns are smart and original, but more than that, Billingham is one of a handful of authors whose words flow as smoothly as his plot. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Could it be that one of these six has a secret far darker than anybody can imagine? Ambitiously plotted and laced with dark humor, Rush of Blood is a first-rate suspense novel about the danger of making new friends in seemingly sunny places. Then, a second girl goes missing, in Kent-not far from where any of the couples lives. Buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some unusual kinks and unpleasant vices. But they don't always like what they find. When the shocked couples return home to the U.K., they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better. But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy strikes: the fourteen-year-old daughter of an American vacationer goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends.
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