β Scribed by Mark Billingham
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
On an island off the Welsh coast, I****nspector Thorne faces a sadistic adversary who'll "certainly make your skin crawl" (*TheNew York Times Book Review*).**
Who'd trust a depraved killer like Stuart Nicklin? Tom Thorne, the DI who put him away, has to. Nicklin has promised to bring closure to the grieving mother of one of his first victims by finally revealing where the body can be found. But there's just one condition: Thorne must accompany him to the burial groundβthe remote Bardsey Island, cut off from the mainland of Wales in more ways than one. Nicklin is in cuffs, surrounded by authorities, and under watchful eye. What can possibly go wrong?
As the macabre outing begins, so do Nicklin's mind gamesβand it becomes clear that his motives are far from altruistic. There are more than bones buried on the storm-shrouded island. There are secrets, too. And as Thorne becomes entangled in the twisted schemes...
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