Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for the Best Crime Novel of the Year and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller, and the first two books have been made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.
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Praise for the DI Tom Thorne series:
'Morse, Rebus, and now Thorne. The next superstar detective is already with us. Don't miss him'
Lee Child
'Tom Thorne is the most interesting cop in British crime fiction at present'
The Times
'DI Thorne is a wonderful creation'
Karin Slaughter
'What is so impressive is how real the characters are, not least his physically battered and psychologically scarred Detective Inspector Tom Thorne'
Guardian
'With each of his books, Mark Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don't want to leave'
Michael Connelly
'If you haven't yet come across DI Thorne, treat yourself. You won't be disappointed'
Sunday Express
Also by Mark Billingham
The DI Tom Thorne series
Sleepyhead
Scaredy Cat
Lazybones
The Burning Girl
Lifeless
Buried
Death Message
Bloodline
From the Dead
Good as Dead
Other fiction
In the Dark
www.markbillingham.com
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