This is a Tom Thorne Thriller.
Tom has been demoted and is back working as a uniformed officer. When he attends the scene of what appears to be the double suicide of an elderly couple he just gets a feeling that something isn't quite right. The officer in charge of the Murder Investigation Team doesn't see it as being at all suspicious and dismisses his concerns.
More suicides keep happening and Tom is convinced that they are murders staged to look like suicides. The only way he can look into these is to start his own personal investigation. He needs to find out what links the people and why they are prepared to take their own lives.
This is the first Mark Billingham book I have read. It is obviously one in a series of books with the character Tom Thorne. There are a few references to a previous story which give background as to why Tom has been demoted, but this can be read as a stand-alone story.
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