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Good as Dead

Good as Dead

by Mark Billingham (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

    $4.19
Synopsis

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 to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding a police officer at gunpoint, he will force the one man who knows more about the case than any other to re-investigate his son's death. That man is DI Tom Thorne.
The Twist
While Helen fights to stay alive and the body-count rises,Thorne must race against time if he is to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 400
 Publisher: Sphere
Published: 18 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 1847444199
ISBN 13: 9781847444196
Book Overview: * 1st chapter release to build buzz and momentum * Large run of bound proofs * iPhone and Android app. updates including exclusive new material * Digital marketing activity encompassing Facebook and Mark's website www.tomthorne.com

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
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 new series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death will be broadcast on BBC1 in 2017. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.