Mark Billingham
Born
Birmingham, England, The United Kingdom
Website
Genre
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Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne, #1)
3 editions
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2001
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Scaredy Cat (Tom Thorne, #2)
73 editions
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2001
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The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)
16 editions
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2023
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Lazybones (Tom Thorne, #3)
63 editions
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2003
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Bloodline (Tom Thorne, #8)
17 editions
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2009
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Rabbit Hole
19 editions
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2021
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The Burning Girl (Tom Thorne, #4)
55 editions
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2004
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Good As Dead (Tom Thorne #10)
38 editions
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2011
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Their Little Secret (Tom Thorne, #16)
6 editions
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2019
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Lifeless (Tom Thorne, #5)
2 editions
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2005
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“Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish.”
― Rush of Blood
― Rush of Blood
“London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others.
Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city - New York or Paris or Sydney - but he felt instinctively that London was .... at the extreme. The darker side of that history, as opposed to the parks, palaces and pearly kings' side that made busloads of Japanese and American tourists gawk and jabber. The hidden history of a city where the lonely, the dispossessed, the homeless, wandered the streets, brushing shoulders with the shadows of those that had come before them. A city in which the poor and the plague-ridden, those long-since hanged for stealing a loaf or murdered for a shilling, jostled for position with those seeking a meal, or a score, or a bed for the night.
A city where the dead could stay lost a long time”
― Scaredy Cat
Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city - New York or Paris or Sydney - but he felt instinctively that London was .... at the extreme. The darker side of that history, as opposed to the parks, palaces and pearly kings' side that made busloads of Japanese and American tourists gawk and jabber. The hidden history of a city where the lonely, the dispossessed, the homeless, wandered the streets, brushing shoulders with the shadows of those that had come before them. A city in which the poor and the plague-ridden, those long-since hanged for stealing a loaf or murdered for a shilling, jostled for position with those seeking a meal, or a score, or a bed for the night.
A city where the dead could stay lost a long time”
― Scaredy Cat
“He was a big man; fifty or so, with greased-back grey hair and an expression that looked as if it had been kicked into position.”
― In The Dark
― In The Dark
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Until You're MineUntil You're MineSamantha Hayes
First Night SummerFirst Night of SummerLandon Parham
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Dare MeDare MeMegan Abbott
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