So Thorne’s suspect is also his romantic rival. Bishop is a smarmy whinger, and he’s an ex-fling of Thorne’s new fling Anne, who cares for Alison now that she’s an invalid. The killer is obviously a doctor, and Thorne’s got one in mind, the oh-so-teasingly named Jeremy Bishop. And it’s not long before he’s all over Charlie. Thorne is your average tough DI with a habit of drinking and a history that needs redeeming. Detective Tom Thorne understands Charlie completely. The curtain rises on his first successful execution of a difficult procedure: drugging his victims (the easy part), and then kind of massaging/suffocating them until the arteries to their brains split and produce a stroke that leaves them completely paralyzed, which is what has happened to Alison Willetts, Charlie’s first success after several botches and a wake of bodies. Newcomer Billingham debuts with a rote but easily digestible thriller, a British serial-killer tale that, we’re told, is already an international bestseller.Ĭharlie is a combination of Jack the Ripper and Jeffrey Dahmer: he’s got some pretty sophisticated medical know-how and he’s out to create zombies not for sex but for some whacked-out notion that he’s saving people.
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