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Scaredy Cat

By: Mark Billingham
Narrated by: Robert Glenister
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Summary

It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, and strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day...

DI Tom Thorne who sees the link and comes to the horrifying conclusion: this is not a serial killer the police are up against - there are two of them. Finding the body used to be the worst part of the job. Not any more. Now each time a body is found, Thorne must live with the knowledge that somewhere out there is a second victim, waiting to be discovered. However while the methods might be the same, Thorne comes to realise that he is hunting two very different killers. One is ruthless and in control, while his partner in crime is submissive, compliant, terrified...

©2002 Mark Billingham (P)2006 Time Warner AudioBooks

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"Britain now has its own forensic crime maestro." (Guardian)

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Another superb offering

Mark Billingham does it again with this, the second in the Tom Thorne series. The plot was engaging and drew me in just like his first novel, Sleephead. I enjoyed the introduction of the characters and the start of the book certainly had an impact. The plot twisted and turned without being obvious in doing so, a feat many other authours should aspire to.
The narration was smooth and crisp, perfect in pitch, tone and delivery pace. Robert Glenister delivers a good array of clear characters and makes it east to differentiate between them.
I am downloading the next novel and can hardly wait to see what befalls Thorne and Holland next.

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Thoroughly enjoyable

Loved the story and the narration but could do without the music..... Please reconsider future books

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Grim and disappointing

The main reason I selected this book was because I loved Robert Glenister during the Strike series. I only hope this book hasn’t ruined him for me.
It was such a grim read, depressing and hopeless. The story line was needlessly graphic at times. The characters were flat, undeveloped and inconsistent.
The music was tinny, horrible and completely unnecessary. It is the reason I’m giving this just one star and not two.
Avoid.

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Story brought live by the narrator!

Fabulous tale, I decided to try it after reading the first book over Christmas. So glad I did. I couldn't stop listening. Robert Glenister was extraordinarily good. I think I would probably listen to anything he read.

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I could listen to Robert read the telephone book

Not a bad story, although as usual with the Thorn series some untangling of who is actually present in the moment is necessary, Glensiter’s skill with accents and voices helps a lot here though

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Abridged version!! Avoid!!

Very annoyed that it was not obvious at purchase that this is the abridged version. I did not realise until it was too late (too early?). I went for this one because of the narrator, who was excellent. But I now feel cheated that I missed the full version (I have a hard copy from years ago. But that’s not the point), and of course it was HOURS shorter, which made it poor value. Avoid and get the full one narrated by the author instead.

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Loved it

I got hooked with this one. It was interesting and the twists of the story mad you on edge loved it

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Music has no place in book

I have enjoyed the pervious books in the series, but this was confusing as the narrator doesn’t change accents/voices for the different characters. The music was totally irritating!

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not bad

not as good as first book, always throws you when they change narrator. However, what was that twangy music all about? unnecessary.

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obvious

This is the second Tom Thorne book I've read. I like a good police procedural and wanted to like this one. Unfortunately, like its predecessor, it was too obvious: one clear red herring and then the 'surprise' perpetrator (not a surprise). The awful 'music' between sections is also really annoying.

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