“mark billingham”

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. ... More

Detective Tom Thorne must hunt vicious contract killers out for his blood in this electrifying fourth novel from the British author of "Lazybones."Once burned . . . By rights, the horrific schoolyard crime should have been laid to rest twenty years ago. An alleged perpetrator confessed and now is g... More

A deliberately induced stroke leaves Alison Willetts unable to move or communicate. Police feel her attacker erred in trying to kill her. But Detective Tom Thorne discovers that Alison is the psychopath's masterpiece; the three women he killed before her were mistakes.Detective Inspector Tom Thorne ... More

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 c... More

Detective Inspector Tom Thorne ("Scaredy Cat") returns in this third entry of Billingham's chilling series. This time, Thorne is on the trail of a killer who preys upon serial rapists in London.The first corpse was found hooded, bound, and naked, kneeling on a bare mattress in a seedy hotel room. Th... More

A blockbuster bestseller in the UK, Billingham's follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut "Sleepyhead" follows two twisted serial killers who are working in tandem to terrorize a city.It is almost unthinkable that a single maniac would murder two women miles apart on the same day. Yet someone fol... More

Life in the Universe was originally published by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as the proceedings of a conference held at the NASA Ames Research Center in 1979. It was designed to address the broad questions of life in a roughly chronological sequence, dealing in turn with presen... More

This invaluable and essential volume focuses on four touring British theatre companies whose work and contributions to post-war British theatre have largely gone unnoticed.This invaluable and essential volume focuses on four touring British theatre companies whose work and contributions to post-war ... More