Good As Dead by Mark Billingham
Taking place over three action-packed days, this is Mark Billingham's fastest and most surprising Thorne thriller yet
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 *
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 *
Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British writer and in 2026 he was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Tom 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780751544978 |
| ISBN 10 | 0751544973 |
| Title | Good As Dead |
| Author | Mark Billingham |
| Series | Tom Thorne Novels |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2012-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for International Thriller Writers Award 2012 (UK) |
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