The Demands

The Crime The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne.

The Demand Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.

The Twist What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away...but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father? "One of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today." (Gillian Flynn )

"With each of his books, Mark Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don't want to leave." (Michael Connelly )

"Tom Thorne is the new superstar detective...Mark Billingham is the new-wave leader of crime fiction." (Lee Child ) Mark Billingham worked as an actor, a TV writer and a stand-up comedian before becoming one of the most critically acclaimed crime novelists in the world. He lives in North London with his wife and two children.