Scaredy Cat | Mark Billingham | KharidobechoBooks

"Billingham is one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful, and gripping writers in the field." —Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

Welcome to "Scaredy Cat," the terrifying, award-winning second installment in Mark Billingham's internationally acclaimed DI Tom Thorne crime series. It is almost unthinkable that a single maniac would murder two women miles apart on the very same day. Yet someone followed Carol Garner home from the train station and strangled her in front of her three-year-old son, while Ruth Murray died in an identical manner just hours later. As the clues begin to line up, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is driven to a chilling, unprecedented conclusion: this is not the work of a copycat or a lone predator. There are two serial killers on the loose, working in perfect, tandem execution.

To stop them before the body count doubles, Thorne must enter a dark psychological maze to trap a mastermind whose need to control and manipulate is as intense as his impulse to kill. Pushed to his absolute limits, Thorne realizes that the second killer isn't a partner—he is a terrified pawn being controlled by a monster who knows exactly how to weaponize fear. Winning the prestigious Sherlock Award for Best Detective, this fast-paced crime thriller delivers masterful suspense that will leave you completely breathless.