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Mark Philip David Billingham (born 2 July 1961) is an English writer whose series of "Tom Thorne" crime novels are considered bestsellers in that particular genre. He is also a TV scriptwriter and has become a familiar face as an actor and stand-up comic.

Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham. Having worked for some years as an actor and more recently as a TV writer and stand-up comedian his first crime novel was published in 2001. Sleepyhead was an instant bestseller in the UK. It has been sold widely throughout the world and was published in the USA in the summer of 2002.

Though still occasionally working as a stand-up comic, Mark now concentrates on writing the series of crime novels featuring London-based detective Tom Thorne. The second novel, Scaredy Cat was published in July 2002 and was followed by Lazybones, The Burning Girl, Lifeless, Buried and Death Message. The newest novel, a standalone thriller called In The Dark is published in August 2008. Mark is at work on the next Tom Thorne novel called Blood Line and at work on the final book in a trilogy of thrillers for children - Triskellion - written under the pseudonym Will Peterson.

Mark lives in North London with his wife and two children.

Available Books by Mark Billingham

	Buried Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751548563 RRP: $19.99 ...
	Death Message Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751548617 RRP: $19.99 ...
	Good As Dead Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751544978 RRP: $19.99 ...
	Lazybones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751548761 RRP: $19.99 ...
	Lifeless Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751548815 RRP: $19.99 ...
	Scaredy Cat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751548860 RRP: $19.99 ...
	Sleepyhead Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751548914 RRP: $19.99 ...
	The Burning Girl Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751548969 RRP: $19.99 ...
	Good as Dead Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781847444196 RRP: $49.99 The Hostage. Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman. The Demand. The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened ...
	Good as Dead Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781847444202 RRP: $32.99 The Hostage. Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman. The Demand. The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened ...
	From the Dead Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751540031 RRP: $19.99 It has been a decade since Alan Langford's charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife Donna was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and served ten years in prison. But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter containing a photo of her husband. The man she hates with every fibre of her being the man she paid to have murdere...
	Scaredy Cat (TV tie-in) Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751545197 RRP: $19.99 It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube, strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day....
	Sleepyhead (TV tie-in) Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751545142 RRP: $19.99 It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable damage to the ligaments in her neck, and their cause of death is changed from 'natural' to murder.The police aren't making much prog...
	Bloodline Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751539943 RRP: $19.99 When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt...
	In the Dark Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751539936 RRP: $22.99 A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister... One life is wiped out and three more are changed forever: the young man whose finger was on the trigger; an ageing gangster planning a deadly revenge, and the pregnan...
	Sleepyhead Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751531466 RRP: $19.99 Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skillful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel; she is aware of everything going on around her, but she is completely unable to move or communicate. It's called Locked-In Syndrome. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer's made his ...
	Lifeless Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751536164 RRP: $19.99 Some lives are cheaper than others. To his friends, his foes and even to himself it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. On his last case he had seriously over-stepped the mark, and now gardening leave has been suggested and all he has to tend is a window box. So when it appears someone is targeting London's homeless community it seems perfectly natural for Thorne to take ...
	Lazybones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751534276 RRP: $19.99 Someone - a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman - is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children, now adults and nowhere to be found . . ....
	Scaredy Cat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780751533958 RRP: $19.99 Scare someone enough, they'll do anything . . . It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station, followed her home on the tube and strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other...

	Bloodline Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780316126663 RRP: $29.95 Detective and country music lover Tom Thorne must thwart a serial killer who is targeting the children of victims of another serial killer from the past....
	Death Message Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061432774 RRP: $9.95 ...
	Death Message Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780061432750 RRP: $30.95 Just as his love life hits the rocks and he must investigate Turkish gangs, Tom Thorne begins to receive blurred photos of dead men on his cell phone, murders connected to a psychopath just released from prison....
	In the Dark Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061432767 RRP: $9.95 for in blood, nything is possible. Secrets are uncovered as fast as bodies, and the story's final twist is as breathtakingly surprising as they come. Mark Billingham's first stand-alone thriller, In the Dark is his most powerful novel yet. Gritty, fierce,...
	Bloodline Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781552788035 RRP: $49.95 ...
	Buried Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061257018 RRP: $9.95 When the son of a former high-ranking police officer goes missing, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne finds himself in a grisly maze of past cases that places him in the direct path of a killer. By the author of Lifeless. Reprint....
	Criminal Tendencies Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780955707858 RRP: $29.95 ...
	Lazy Bones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060560867 RRP: $9.95 In the wake of a series of ex-convict slayings by an anonymous pen-pal who befriended the convicts while they were in prison and then murdered them upon their releases, detective inspector Tom Thorne discovers a link between the killings and a twenty-five-year-old murder-suicide case. By the author of Scaredy Cat and Sleepyhead. Reprint....
	Lifeless Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060841676 RRP: $9.95 Risking everything to stop a vicious killer, down-and-out detective Tom Thorne goes undercover on the streets of London to find a demented murderer who is preying on the city's most vulnerable inhabitants. Reprint....
	The Burning Girl Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060745271 RRP: $9.95 Wrapped up in a case involving a contract killer and a turf war between organized crime bosses, detective Tom Thorne discovers a disturbing link between both cases and a ring of protection rackets....

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	Blood Line Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781408700686 When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. DI Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt...
	Buried Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316730518 Luke Mullen, sixteen year old son of a former, high-ranking police officer has disappeared, presumed kidnapped. While no-one quite dares to voice the fear that he could also be presumed dead, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is brought in to beef up the squad dedicated to locating the missing boy. The first thing the team looks for is anyone with a grudge against Luke's father, a man who'd p...
	Death Message Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316730549 The new Tom Thorne novel from one of our favourite crime writers. The first message sent to Tom Thorne's mobile phone was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne had seen too many dead bodies in his time to know that this man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? While the technical experts attempt to trace the sender, Thorne search...
	From The Dead Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781408700761 When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Because she's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined young private investigator, to find him. DI Tom Thorne worked on the Alan Langford case,...
	In the Dark Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781408700709 A uniquely disturbing thriller from the bestselling creator of the Inspector Thorne novels. A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, killing the person standing at a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister... One life is wiped out and three more are changed fore...
	Lazy Bones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316724944 The past has caught up with them. And so has he . . . The body is found in the grubbiest of North London hotel rooms. Naked on a bare mattress, kneeling as though in prayer, his head is hooded and his hands tied tight with a brown leather belt. And there's the sinister finishing touch - the call from the florist to check arrangements about the wreath . . . It is only ten days since convicte...
	Lifeless Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780316727525 To his friends, his foes and even to himself it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. On his last case he had seriously over-stepped the mark, and now gardening leave has been suggested and all he has to tend is a window box. So when it appears someone is targeting London's homeless community it seems perfectly natural for Thorne to take a step nearer to the gutter and go un...
	Lifeless Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316727532 To his friends, his foes and even to himself it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. On his last case he had seriously over-stepped the mark, and now gardening leave has been suggested and all he has to tend is a window box. So when it appears someone is targeting London's homeless community it seems perfectly natural for Thorne to take a step nearer to the gutter and go un...
	Scaredy Cat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061032202 Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is back as he races against time to track two serial killers who seem to be working hand-in-hand, leaving a gruesome trail of murdered women behind them, as he tries to get inside their minds, hoping to catch them before those closest to him get caught in the crossfire of the investigation. Reprint....
	Scaredy Cat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316859547 It was a vicious, calculated murder. The killer chose his target at Euston station, followed her and strangled her to death. The victim wasn't his first. A few months earlier another woman was selected and stabbed to death in North London. The only thing more terrifying than a serial killer on the loose is two of them, murdering in tandem . . ....
	Sleepyhead Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316856966 Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel: she is aware of everything going on around her, but she is completely unable to move or communicate. It's called Locked-In Syndrome. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer's made hi...
	The Burning Girl Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316725736 Jessica Clarke had been set alight twenty years ago. Her attacker, quickly tracked down and eager to confess, was still in jail, his career as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer in that case, and claiming that he is one who burned the girl? Now retired, Carol turns to DI Tom Thorne for help. He's up to his neck in a...

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