Di Tom Thorne: Cry Baby : A Tom Thorne Novel (Series #17) (Hardcover)

from carole888fort

Cry Baby by Mark Billingham is the prequel to the bestselling police procedural Sleepyhead, a novel featuring Detective Superintendent Tom Thorne. The year is 1996 and two young boys playing in a park disappear together in the nearby woods and only one child comes back. The other has vanished wit...

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Cry Baby by author Mark Billingham is the 17th book in the DI Tom Thorne and is a prequel. It takes place in 1995 when a young(er) Thorne is confronted with the case of a missing child. Unlikely best friends, upper class Maria and working class Cat have taken their young sons to the park. It's me...

from pomo58

Cry Baby is Mark Billingham's 17th Tom Thorne novel and serves as a prequel to the first book and thus the series. If you're familiar with the series then you should find this to be as good as the others. I have not read all of them but quite a few and enjoyed this quite a bit. It can easily be r...

from Eyejaybee

I think it takes a lot of confidence for a writer of an established series of books to go back to write a plausible prequel, and it must be particularly challenging in the crime milieu. Mark Billingham has pulled it off successfully here, presenting us with an earlier case from the career of his ...

from pgchuis

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via Netgalley. It is a prequel to the Tom Thorne series, of which I have only read the most recent instalments, but stands perfectly well on its own. If you have read others in the series, you will enjoy Tom's first encounters with Phil. This was...