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Résumé
Résumé
A brutal murder casts suspicion on a London therapy group in this thriller from the author of The Bones Beneath : "One of my favorite new writers" (Harlan Coben).
Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about shame. Among them are a grieving surgeon, a betrayed housewife, a taunting gay model, a barely recovered heroin addict. All they have in common is a history of pain and compulsions--until they're linked by the brutal murder of one of their members. Det. Inspector Nicola Tanner is drawn into this intimate circle to find the killer. Unfortunately, not a single one of them is willing to share.
Now it's up to Tanner to delve into their pasts on her own. But what secret could be so shameful as to kill for it? Or die for it? And how can she possibly find the truth when lies and denial are second nature to her suspects?
From British thriller master Mark Billingham comes "one of the best crime novels of the year . . . Shocking, frightening, gripping" ( The Independent ).
"Billingham is one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today." --Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
"Keeps the reader guessing, and second-guessing." -- Tampa Bay Times
Critiques (2)
Critique de Booklist
Every week, five recovering addicts and their therapist, Tony de Silva, gather for a volatile support group. They've met for years and are enmeshed in each other's lives, but no one thinks twice when Heather Finlay doesn't show up for several weeks; addicts, after all, often scarper off. Then Heather's body is found in her London apartment weeks after her apparent murder, and DI Nicola Tanner is faced with a true whodunit. Heather had no friends beyond the support group, and de Silva invokes confidentiality rules, effectively halting Tanner's progress retracing the victim's last days. But, when a group member lets it slip that the group's last meeting was a revelation of shame that evolved into bitter fights, Tanner relentlessly picks apart de Silva's and the group members' meager statements, revealing the group's devolution into raging distrust. Tanner's investigation plays against the story of the support group's interactions before and after the murder as Billingham (a Theakston's and Sherlock award winner) skillfully layers the deceits and betrayals concealing a satisfying twist. A must-read for Val McDermid fans.--Tran, Christine Copyright 2016 Booklist
Critique du Library Journal
Once a week six people come together in London to talk about their addictive behavior and confront the shame that may account for it. There is an alcoholic doctor, a well-to-do divorcée, a gay prostitute, an obese woman, a drug abuser-even the analyst has a history. When the body of a member is found several weeks after that person was stabbed to death, DI Nicola Tanner is convinced the killer must be someone in the group. The confidentiality of the sessions, the compulsive lying of the participants, the complexity of their backgrounds all frustrate her probe. By the end the reader has identified the killer, but Tanner has not. In Billingham's third stand-alone (after Rush of Blood), chapters move between present and past in which each character's backstory and interrelationship to the group are skillfully revealed. VERDICT Billingham draws readers in as he fleshes out each character, ratchets up the tension, and surprises-and then does it again while advancing toward an ending that is tantalizingly not final. [See Prepub Alert, 12/14/15; library marketing; eight-city tour.]-Roland Person, formerly with -Southern -Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
