Billingham, who also writes the Tom Thorne mystery series, brings in investigators on both sides of the Atlantic to broaden the cast of characters and introduce some procedural details. Back home, where the couples have been hosting dinner parties to keep in touch, this perv is already haunting special-ed schools trolling for another victim.
From the killer’s interior monologues we learn that this won’t be the last murder. The thing is, one of these terrible tourists used precious vacation time to murder another guest at the resort, 14-year-old Amber-Marie Wilson, a friendly child with “mental difficulties,” as her mother puts it. The wives are jealous, competitive and catty, but still easier to take than their husbands. That’s as good a reason as any for Angie and Barry, Dave and Marina, and Ed and Sue to strike up a friendship when they meet at the Pelican Palms. Three couples who are all from London find themselves staying at the same cheesy beach resort on Siesta Key in Sarasota. But you laugh at your peril at the Ugly Brits vacationing in America in RUSH OF BLOOD (Atlantic Monthly, $25), Mark Billingham’s savage satire about good friends whose special bond originated in murder.
Ugly Americans on a European vacation are always good for a laugh.
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