Love like blood

London. In a peaceful residential area, a woman is doused with acid and brutally murdered. The police have no leads. No one seems to have had any reason to harm the teacher. Her partner, on the other hand, was a police officer investigating a series of unsolved cases, all of which pointed to organized honor killings. Tom Thorne takes over the investigation and enters a dangerous world where families have their own laws. Thorne does everything he can to prevent parents from becoming murderers of their own children in the name of honor - and must learn what it means when love curdles into blood. Usually, bestselling author Mark Billingham makes up the cases that captivate his readers. But this book is different. It is based on true events that haunt him to this day.