Rush of Blood

Mark Billingham

Aug 2012 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

In this 'chilling story that keeps you guessing to the last page', three couples who befriend each other on holiday may be hiding sinister secrets from each other (Daily Express)

Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves.

When the shocked couples return home, they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better. But they don't always like what they find: buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some dark secrets, hidden kinks, ugly vices...

Then, a second girl goes missing.

Could it be that one of these six has a secret far darker than anybody can imagine?

A brilliantly plotted, utterly gripping thriller about the danger of making friends on holiday, Rush of Blood is Mark Billingham's most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
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Ratings and reviews

Gripped throughout the whole book trying to figure out who it was...Such a great way of keeping everyone in the limelight, really until the last second! My jaw is still wide open! And the way Mark blends into being whatever type of character he is describing is great, really makes you feel you're inside their heads...Loved every second!!

Excellent!! Great characters that were superbly written, both likable and unlikable in equal measure with a decent twist at the end. I absolutely loved this and shall be reading many more of this authors work.

Provocatively written, thoroughly engrossing and challenges you to the final page.

About the author

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.