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• 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. Could it be that one of these six has a secret far darker than anybody can imagine?My Thoughts:Mark Billingham is one of my favourite authors with Tom Thorne being one of my favourite characters. This book is a stand alone thriller but Tom Thorne does make a brief cameo appearance.This story is about three couples who meet on holiday. There’s plenty of sun , sea, sex, drink and a murder. What was clever about this book is that you get to know the couples and it is obvious that one of the six is the killer but you just cannot make out which one. There are plenty of red herrings and as I was reading it I did keep changing my mind who it could be.This book kept me on my toes till the big reveal and then there is a twist. I wish Tom Thorne could have been on this case and it would have bought together a great story with a great characterMark Billingham has previously churned out a stand alone but it wasn’t half as good as this one. I would highly recommend this book and all of the Tom Thorne novels. I have also met Mark Billingham and would recommend going to see him if you could.

  5.00 out of 5

  tina1969

• Mark Billingham's 'Rush of Blood' was entertaining, but predictable, and ultimately forgettable. The story is of three British couples who meet on vacation in Florida. While they are making preparations to return home, the 14-year old daughter of another hotel guest disappears. In the months after the vacation, the three couples meet up for dinner, and in that time yet another girl goes missing, and the situation and the child involved are too similar to the Florida case to be coincidental. All the time I was reading the book, I was trying to figure out which of the characters was least likely to have been the criminal, as that's who it would be; the story was just so to type. I found the ending anti-climactic and unsatisfying. That being said, it was a decent read, and Mark Billingham's characters were certainly well-drawn. On the whole, not a great book, but not a waste of time, either.

  3.00 out of 5

  ahef1963

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