Rush of Blood: The heart-racing thriller from the international bestseller Mark Billingham

· Hachette UK
34 reviews
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352
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'Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don't want to leave' Michael Connelly

Don't miss Mark Billingham's brand-new thriller, The Wrong Hands, available to pre-order now!

Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves.

When the shocked couples return home, they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better. But they don't always like what they find: buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some dark secrets, hidden kinks, ugly vices...

Then, a second girl goes missing.
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What real readers say about Rush of Blood

'Warning: This book is hard to put down once you start it!!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'His best book to date' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'I've read this book a few times over the years, and still enjoy the thrill of the reveal' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'For me this is the best Billingham ever . . . I have been literally pinned to my seat reading for the whole day' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Absolutely fantastic. I know it's a cliche but it kept me guessing right up to the end' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don't want to leave' Michael Connelly Don't miss Mark Billingham's brand-new thriller, The Wrong Hands, available to pre-order now! Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on ...

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34 reviews
A Google user
May 11, 2018
Excellent!! Great characters that were superbly written, both likable and unlikable in equal measure with a decent twist at the end. I absolutely loved this and shall be reading many more of this authors work.
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Neil Watkinson
February 3, 2015
Classic Billingham. Vivid characters, tense plot and dark psychological subtext...this boy knows how to write a gripping yarn!
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L Raven
September 25, 2014
Gripped throughout the whole book trying to figure out who it was...Such a great way of keeping everyone in the limelight, really until the last second! My jaw is still wide open! And the way Mark blends into being whatever type of character he is describing is great, really makes you feel you're inside their heads...Loved every second!!
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About the author

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British writer and in 2026 he was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.
Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British writer and in 2026 he was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre. Sleepyh...

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