The Demands / Good as Dead (2011)Mark Billingham
Grade: C+
Genre: crime
Source: NetGalley / library
Tom Thorne: ... (10) The Demands
Detective Sergeant Helen Weeks visits her local newsagent just as she does every morning after dropping off her son, Alfie, with the childminder. Her chewing gum, chocolate and newspaper are pretty standard staples for her morning commute into work and she always has time for a few minutes of polite conversation with the newsagent, Mr Aktar, while he counts her change. What she doesn’t expect this particular morning is to have a gun pointed at head and be taken hostage.
