Read Series: Tom Thorne
by Author Mark Billingham
Buried (2007)
This is the sixth Tom Thorne novel and, as always, things are not going well for our country music loving detective. It is six months since Thorne went undercover amongst London’s homeless and he is still being side-lined. However, when pressure is put upon his superior officer to help with th...
The Burning Girl (2015)
The last book in this series ended with a bang - a complete whirlwind of an ending. While this one didn't carry on in exactly the same vein, it did continue the general quality. With this book we see this series start to develop into what could be a great series; Four StarsPlot: Four Stars And th...
Death Message (2015)
This may have been one of my most favourite crime/thriller books I've ever read. This genre is one of my constants throughout the years. I've always enjoyed a good crime thriller and when I stumbled upon Billingham I was delighted to find a good cop series based in Britain that I really enjoyed. ...
Scaredy Cat (2015)
From Publishers Weekly Billingham's second thriller (after Sleepyhead) featuring London Det. Insp. Tom Thorne offers a twist on the serial killer subgenre. Brooding, melancholy Thorne heads a team of detectives who are alerted to the death of a young mother brutally strangled as her three-year-ol...
Lifeless (2015)
"c2005. I ordered this as the author had given a very favourable blurb on one of the books that I have recently read (I think The Snowman). Not having read previous books with the protagonist, I didn't really get the character at all. Although the writing style could be describe as pithy - I did ...
Lazybones (2015)
I'll say from the get-go that at no point did I think this title was appropriate at all. The phrase "lazy bones" was mentioned once I think and it had nothing to do with anything. It's entirely possible I missed the point, but I thought this was poorly titled.Luckily, this book was excellent in e...
Sleepyhead (2003)
This was my first read of Mark Billingham's novels and his character Detective Inspector Tom Thorne. Nearly ten years on now when this debut was launched and I am guilty of not reading many British authors when it comes to crime and thrillers, I have loved John Connolly and his character Charlie ...