Good As Dead (Tom Thorne Novels)

Good As Dead (Tom Thorne Novels)

by Mark Billingham (Author), Mark Billingham (Author)

Synopsis

Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but she is about to come face to face with a gunman.

The hostage-taker is desperate to know what happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding Helen at gunpoint, he will force a re-investigation into his son's death. And one man knows the case better than any other - DI Tom Thorne.

As the body count rises,Thorne must race against time to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Edition: 0
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 15 Mar 2012

ISBN 10: 0751544973
ISBN 13: 9780751544978
Book Overview: Mark Billingham. The mega-selling UK crime author, growing faster than any other. The Sky1 drama series attracted an audience of over 2.9 million viewers. More TV in the pipeline. Stunning new filmic package to play up the TV connection. Top level marketing spend for 2012. One of our biggest consumer campaigns for the year, including possible TV and online videos. Huge number of author events. = Higher profile than ever before.

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
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.