Books by Mark Billingham
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review 1: I did enjoy this book but I found it a little bit formulaic. It was generally well written, it had a good pace and kept me interested until the end. I felt that in places there could have been more description - anyone unfamiliar with the various areas of London may well have str...
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review 1: It seems I'm at odds with many of the other reviewers of this book as I really enjoyed it. It's a bit of a departure for Mark Billingham but extremely well done. Nothing gruesome, just a steadily building teasing out of the truth about the relationships within and between three c...
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review 1: Definitely not a book for bedtime! If you want some sleep, that is. I found it very difficult to put down. The tension is terrific as Thorne races to try to comply with a kidnapper's demand that his son's death be proved not to be suicide. Tension within the claustrophobic atmosp...
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review 1: Another great read about Tom Thorne's life after being demoted for his behaviour during an earlier investigation.He still manages to get Holland,Hendricks and Kitson involved in working under the radar in this investigation into what seems like a series of unconnected suicides.I ...
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review 1: Mark Billingham is probably my favourite 'modern' crime writer. I've been reading his Tom Thorne novels since the first one was published and the standard has remained remarkably high. This one revolves around the 'suicides' of elderly people which Tom Thorne, bumped back down in...
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review 1: The latest book in a series that never disappoints. Freshly reinstated in the position he was stripped of following the events of book 10, Thorne once again comes face to face with one of the worst adversaries he faced over the course of his career. After ten years behind bars, s...
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review 1: I've enjoyed all Mark Billingham's books and this one was no exception. I love the way he writes his 'good' characters so flawed and human while at the same time his 'bad' characters are capable of good things despite their obvious shortcomings. If you want thought-provoking, gro...
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review 1: From the blurb I was really excited to get stuck into the book but when I got to reading it, it started really slow and I was almost tempted to give up. Until, the killer found a voice. It got better but 100 pages in I had worked out 'whodunit' in a book that is supposed to kee...
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review 1: 3.5 stars - go on, Goodreads, give us those half stars to play with. Helen Weeks, last seen in the standalone thriller 'In the Dark', is placed at the heart of a siege in a newsagents' shop, and only Tom Thorne (naturally) can bring about justice for the hostage taker, who believ...