Rush of Blood cover art

Rush of Blood

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Rush of Blood

By: Mark Billingham
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder....

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?

A brilliantly plotted, utterly gripping thriller about the danger of making friends on holiday, Rush of Blood is Mark Billingham's most ambitious and accomplished work to date. Specially adapted for audio by the author.

2013, Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, Long-listed

©2012 Mark Billingham (P)2012 Hachette Audio UK Crime Thrillers Modern Detectives Mystery Police Procedurals Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Celebration

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Murderer's Son cover art
First Blood cover art
The Turning of Our Bones cover art
A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller cover art
The Bonnie Dead cover art
A Real Shot in the Arm cover art
The Hope That Kills cover art
This Little Piggy cover art
In Too Deep cover art
The Body in the Marsh cover art
A Long Time Dead cover art
Buried cover art
Host cover art
The One That Got Away cover art
Chapter One cover art
Dirty Little Secrets cover art

Critic reviews

"A chilling story that keeps you guessing to the last page." (Daily Express)
All stars
Most relevant  
my experiences with billingham's books have been varied, but i enjoyed this one. the narrator was also good - straightforward and to the point. i'd recommend.

pretty good, really

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fabulous, gripping book. Didn't want to switch off. I think this would be great dramatized, so many twists and the characters come alive with the minutiae details of their actions and thoughts. Loved the narrator's voice too!

Rush of blood

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I have trouble hearing the dialogue when the narrator whispers because the character is whispering. The book is spoiled because I cannot hear the narration. Please stop the whispering in audio books

whispering

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
his characters are always well defined, realistic and relatable. the story works itself around the characters effortlessly.

so well written

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A good holiday read (as this is part of the story) easy to pick up on if left for a while. Took me a while in to the book to remember which couple was married to whom - but such a good plot and twist.

Easy going read - Narrater makes it so interesting

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The twist at the end was unexpected. Just when l thought it was all wrapped up - I realised it was just unwrapping ...

EXCELLENT STORY - BRILLIANT NARRATOR

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
very believable story anout 3 couples who meet on holiday when a young girl disappears. the disappearance is tracked when each of the couples take it in turns to hold a dinner party. great narration. i have listened to it many times.

good story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I thought this book took a long time to get going. I didn't really bond with the characters and found that once the story was in full swing I didn't much care how it ended. The best bit for me was the last 5-10 minutes. Was it all worth the wait? Not in my opinion.

Slow start

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I listened to this over a couple of days on holiday and it had myself and my husband absolutely gripped. A departure from Billingham's Thorne series and probably even better. Toby Longworth narrates this brilliantly and for me this was a perfect audiobook . As I cannot read due to illness at the moment I feel very frustrated at not being able to read my favourite crime novels, listening to them is somehow not the same. However, the narration and structure of this book is audio perfect there are no wasted words or scenes which can
sometimes be a problem on audio books. The characterisation is brilliant and the dinner party scenes perfectly done; funny and excruciating. A fantastic holiday listen

My listen of the month

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

What did you like most about Rush of Blood?

Great characters that you can relate to, the storyline twists and turns...As expected from Mark Billingham

Have you listened to any of Toby Longworth’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Very well read

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I struggled to get into this book first time but when I came back to it I listened to it in 3 sittings

Good storyline, good listening, well written

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews