Cry Baby - Signed, Lined and Dated'One of the great series of British crime fiction' THE TIMES 'Cry Baby is the perfect prequel to send us back to revel in Tom Thorne's twenty years. As if we needed reminding how good Mark Billingham is' VAL MCDERMID It's 1996. Detective Sergeant Tom Thorne is a haunted man. Haunted by the moment he ignored his instinct about a suspect, by the horrific crime that followed and by the memories that come day and night, in sunshine and shadow. So when

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For Eleanor stumbles across a centuries-old war between vampires and their fiercest enemy

And as Alice dodges the ever-tightening net of the island's witch hunters

Tom and Alice return from Greece to find the County under siege - and the Spook's home burnt to the ground

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Parallel runs the tale of two young scamps

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he finds himself morbidly fascinated by her train wreck of a marriage

but Grubbs takes care of his uncle as they both try to continue a normal

Aware of a debt to her that he never fully acknowledged

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