Lazy Bones: Mark Billingham

Book III of Tom Thorne. It's only ten days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison, having served seven years of a twelve-year sentence for rape. Now he's dead - naked on the bare mattress of a very grubby North London hotel room, his head hooded and his hands tied tightly with a brown leather belt. Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishment of his own. And when a second sex offender is found dead - different hotel, same modus operandi - Thorne knows he has a vicious, calculating vigilante to find. Thorne works best when he's angry, when his passion flares up - but in the case, his sympathy for the dead is zero. It is only as the investigation continues that he finds a victim worth fighting for, a victim whose identity becomes crucial in cracking this most twisted of cases...