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The Burning Girl (Podpalona) is the fourth novel in the Tom Thorne-series by Mark Billingham. Jentas is publishing Billingham’s books in Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish and Spanish.

A man who kills for money
X marks the spot – and when that spot is a corpse’s naked back and the X is carved in blood, DI Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious killer.

A brutal vendetta 
This is brutal turf warfare between north London gangs. Organised crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else’s patch, and that someone is not best pleased.

A cop who is playing with fire
And when an X is carved on DI Tom Thorne’s front door, he knows the smouldering embers of this case are about to erupt into flames…