A rollercoaster of a read... confirms Billingham's status as one of the finest crime writers around * Daily Express * Taut and tense, with an unusually sympathetic hostage-taker * The Times * The best thrillers make you see familiar territory in a new light. Mark Billingham has always done that * Sunday Telegraph * With DI Tom Thorne's 10th outing, Mark Billingham proves he's a real contender for the title of the nation's top crime writer * Daily Mirror * Just as we become used to (and are perhaps wearying of) the influx of foreign crime novels, here comes Mark Billingham with a thoroughly British police thriller * Time Out * Utterly engaging... The series' page-turning credentials remain more than intact * Independent on Sunday Books of the Year *
Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for 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. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.