Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2148-6
A growing number of suicides start looking like murder in Billingham’s absorbing 11th novel featuring Det. Insp. Tom Thorne (after 2012’s The Demands). With the apparent joint suicide of an elderly London couple, Thorne, who’s no longer with the CID,
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Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6194-9
Billingham (Sleepyhead) launches a cracking new mystery series featuring the charming, sarcastic British Det. Sgt. Declan Miller. Miller’s wife, Alex—also a detective—was recently murdered on the job. Afternoons spent in the company of his pet rats...
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Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-5870-3
Det. Constable Alice “Al” Armitage, the narrator of this gripping if flawed standalone from British author Billingham (the Tom Thorne series), has a psychotic breakdown after witnessing her police partner’s murder and is admitted to the psych ward...
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Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2824-9
A spate of cat deaths propels Billingham’s intriguing 15th novel featuring London Det. Insp. Tom Thorne (after 2017’s Love like Blood). Assigned to the case, Thorne hates the ridicule that comes with it, until he discovers that the cats are...
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Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2653-5
Billingham’s entertaining 14th Tom Thorne novel (after 2015’s Time of Death) teams the formerly rule-bending London detective inspector, who’s fighting middle age and an expanding waistline, with Det. Insp. Nicola Tanner, introduced in 2016’s...
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Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2591-0
Three British couples meet by chance during a vacation in Sarasota, Fla., in this intricate psychological thriller from Billingham (Die of Shame). They share fruity drinks and promise to keep in touch after their holiday, the kind of promises...
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Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2525-5
In this solid standalone from Billingham (Rush of Blood), London therapist Tony De Silva, a recovering drug addict, leads an often tense weekly session with five clients whose only connection is a history of substance abuse. When the body of...
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Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2363-3
At the outset of Billingham’s slow-burning 13th Tom Thorne novel (after 2014’s The Bones Beneath), the detective inspector’s girlfriend, Det. Sgt. Helen Weeks, persuades him to abandon their original holiday plans and head instead to Polesford, the...
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Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2248-3
In Billingham’s chilling 12th novel featuring Det. Insp. Tom Thorne (after 2013’s The Dying Hours), serial killer Stuart Nicklin offers to lead the police to the remains of one of his first victims—a 15-year-old boy who vanished 25 years ago while...
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Mark Billingham. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2213-1
At the outset of Billingham’s engrossing ninth novel featuring Det. Insp. Tom Thorne (after 2011’s Bloodline), an unnamed man stages his own death, allowing him to escape from England; his former wife is convicted of conspiring to murder him. Ten...
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Mark Billingham, Author . Morrow $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-621299-9
In a variation on the serial killer theme, newcomer Billingham's villain doesn't want to actually kill his victims (those who do die he considers "mistakes") so much as induce massive strokes that will leave them cerebrally conscious
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Mark Billingham. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $24.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-12663-2
A hostage situation turns personal in Billingham’s crackling 10th suspense thriller featuring Det. Insp. Tom Thorne (after 2010’s From the Dead). Javed Akhtar is convinced that his 16-year-old son, Amin, was recently murdered in the Barndale Young...
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Mark Billingham. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-12666-3
In Billingham's thrilling eighth crime novel featuring London police detective Tom Thorne (after Death Message), Thorne welcomes the distraction of a new case after his girlfriend, Det. Insp. Louise Porter, suffers a miscarriage. When Emily Walker...
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Mark Billingham, Author William Morrow & Company $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-084166-9
When a serial killer targets London street people in British author Billingham's gritty fifth police procedural to feature detective Tom Thorne (after 2005's Burning Girl), Thorne, a psychological wreck following his father's death, convinces his...
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Mark Billingham, Author . Harper $25.99 (458p) ISBN 978-0-06-143275-0
When Det. Insp. Thorne receives an anonymous text message with a blurry photograph of a dead man, Thorne wonders if someone is playing a macabre trick in Billingham's outstanding seventh novel to feature the London policeman (after 2007's...
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Mark Billingham, Author . Harper $25.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-06-143273-6
The line between cop and criminal becomes dangerously blurred in Billingham's excellent stand-alone thriller. Told from multiple points-of-view and full of red herrings, the story begins in the London suburbs with a gang initiation. Hoping to...
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Mark Billingham, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (394p) ISBN 978-0-06-125569-4
British author Billingham’s taut sixth procedural to feature London policeman Tom Thorne (after Lifeless
) establishes him as one of the best new hard-boiled voices. Assigned to investigate the kidnapping of 16-year-old Luke Mullen, DI Tom...
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Mark Billingham, Author . Morrow $16.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-06-074526-4
The engrossing fourth novel by British TV writer Billingham to feature London police detective Tom Thorne (after 2004's Lazybones
) has a solid, traditional structure and plot, and a whiff of noir sensibility. Thorne is the solid reliable cop...
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Mark Billingham, Author . Morrow $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-056085-0
Fans of public television's various BBC Mystery
programs would do well to tune into this third in Billingham's series (Scaredy Cat
; Sleepyhead
) featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne and his fellow officers of the London Metropolitan...
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Mark Billingham, Author . Morrow $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-621300-2
Billingham's second thriller (after Sleepyhead) featuring London Det. Insp. Tom Thorne offers a twist on the serial killer subgenre. Brooding, melancholy Thorne heads a team of detectives who are alerted to the death of a young mother brutally...
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Mark Billingham, Author, Carla Banks, Author, Simon Brett, Author . Crme de la Crime $14.95 (321p) ISBN 978-0-9557078-5-8
Divided equally between reprints and original entries, this fine anthology showcases many of today's top British crime writers, from seasoned veterans like Peter Lovesey and Reginald Hill to newer names like Zoë Sharp and Roz Southey. The creepy...
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