Mark Billingham

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2001
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Detective Miller

1 - The Last Dance (Jul-2023)
2 - The Wrong Hands (Jul-2024)

Tom Thorne

1 - Sleepyhead (Aug-2001)
2 - Scaredy Cat (Jul-2002)
3 - Lazybones (Jul-2003)
4 - The Burning Girl (Jul-2004)
5 - Lifeless (Aug-2006)
6 - Buried (Jun-2007)
7 - Death Message (Jun-2008)
8 - Bloodline (Jul-2011)
9 - The Demands (Jun-2012)
10 - The Dying Hours (Aug-2013)
11 - The Bones Beneath (Jun-2014)
13 - Time of Death (Jun-2015)
14 - Love Like Blood (Jun-2017)
15 - The Killing Habit (Jul-2018)
16 - Their Little Secret (Jun-2019)
17 - Cry Baby (Aug-2020)
18 - The Murder Book (Aug-2022)
19 - What the Night Brings (Jul-2025)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Sleepyhead

    Tom Thorne - 1

    Detective Inspector Tom Thorne now knows that three murdered young women were a killer's mistakes -- and that Alison was his triumph. And unless Thorne can enter the mind of a brilliant madman -- a frighteningly elusive fiend who enjoys toying with t...

  • Scaredy Cat

    Tom Thorne - 2

    It is almost unthinkable that a single maniac would murder two women miles apart on the same day. Yet someone followed Carol Garner home from the train station and strangled her to death in front of her three-year-old son. And, afterwards, Ruth Murra...

  • Lazybones

    Tom Thorne - 3

    Thorne knew when he was looking at something out of the ordinary. This was a significant murder scene. This was the work of a killer driven by something special, something spectacular ... He looked at the dead man on the bed -- the position of him, a...

  • Stroke of Luck

    in Like A Charm

    Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...

  • The Burning Girl

    Tom Thorne - 4

    Some fires never go out ... X marks the spot -- and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract kille...

  • Lifeless

    Tom Thorne - 5

    It's hardly a life. But he'll take it anyway. . . . To friends and enemies alike, it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father and berated for seriously overstepping the mark on his last case,...

  • Buried

    Tom Thorne - 6

    Teenager Luke Mullen is missing. He was last seen by schoolmates getting into a car with an older woman, and it is unclear whether he has disappeared voluntarily or been abducted. Police looking for the boy are pretty certain they are dealing wit...

  • Stepping Up

    in Penguin Book of Crime Stories

    International bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his razor-sharp instinct for crime writing to this unique anthology featuring the cream of crime fiction. With a selection of 15 stories featuring established bestsellers and new voices, The Pengu...

  • Death Message

    Tom Thorne - 7

    An “outstanding” novel featuring British detective Thorne investigating a string of murders after he receives text messages with photos of corpses. (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Thorne looked at the picture, feeling the pulse quicken at the...



  • In the Dark

    A Deadly Crash A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car, which swerves onto the pavement and plows into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost the life of an innocent victim. But the reality is far more sinis...

  • From the Dead

    A murder-for-hire goes wrong in this thriller by “one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today” (Gillian Flynn).   After Alan Langford’s charred remains were found in his burnt-out Jaguar, his abused, l...

  • Bloodline

    Tom Thorne - 8

    A killer is on the loose. The victims: children whose mothers can't protect them. The past is coming back to haunt the people of London: a murderer is targeting the children of victims of Raymond Garvey, an infamous serial killer from London's pas...

  • The Demands

    Tom Thorne - 9

    The Crime The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne. The Demand Akhtar is ...

  • Rush of Blood

    Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder. Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy strikes: the fourteen-year-ol...

  • The Dying Hours

    Tom Thorne - 10

    It's been twenty five years since Tom Thorne last went to work wearing the Queen's cloth but now having stepped out of line once too often he's back in uniform. He's no longer a detective and he hates it. Still struggling to adjust Thorne becomes con...

  • The Bones Beneath

    Tom Thorne - 11

    The Bones Beneath, the twelfth novel in the internationally bestselling Tom Thorne series shows Thorne facing perhaps the most dangerous killer he has ever put away, Stuart Nicklin. When Nicklin announces that he wishes to reveal the whereabouts of o...

  • Time of Death

    Tom Thorne - 13

    Reeling from a particularly difficult recent case, Tom Thorne is enjoying a Valentine’s Day break with his girlfriend DS Helen Weeks in the picturesque English Cotswolds. But their romantic weekend is disturbed when they hear about an arrest made i...

  • Die of Shame

    Die of Shame is a chilling story of addiction, subterfuge, and murder. Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smart North London house to talk about shame. A respected doctor, a well-heeled housewife, a young male prostitute ... they could n...

  • Love Like Blood

    Tom Thorne - 14

    Tom Thorne pairs up with perfectionist detective inspector Nicola Tanner of DIE OF SHAME on an investigation that ventures into politically sensitive territory. DI Nicola Tanner needs Tom Thorne's help. Her partner, Susan, has been brutally murder...



  • Cut Off

    Step into a thrilling Quick Read from number one bestselling crime fiction author Mark Billingham. It's the moment we all fear: losing our phone, leaving us cut off from family and friends. But, for Louise, losing hers in a local caf takes her s...

  • The Killing Habit

    Tom Thorne - 15

    The Killing Habit again brings together favorite wild-card detective Tom Thorne and straight-laced DI Nicola Tanner on a pair of lethally high-stakes cases. While DI Nicola Tanner investigates the deadly spread of a dangerous new drug, Tom Thorne ...

  • Their Little Secret

    Tom Thorne - 16

    A woman’s suicide puts a detective on the trail of a cold-hearted con artist: “Outstanding . . . a maximum of suspense” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   When DI Tom Thorne is called to the site of a suicide, he expects...

  • Cry Baby

    Tom Thorne - 17

    The latest thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham takes us back to the origins of Tom Thorne. In the summer of 1996, two boys run from a playground into the adjoining woods, but only one comes out. DS Tom Thorne takes on ...

  • Rabbit Hole

    A gripping standalone thriller from the “first-rate British crime writer” and internationally bestselling author of the Tom Thorne novels (The Washington Post).   Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was.   Or perhaps she just ima...

  • The Murder Book

    Tom Thorne - 18

    A spate of brutal murders threatens the newfound happiness of “one of the most credible and engaging heroes in contemporary crime fiction” (Ian Rankin). Tom Thorne finally has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends b...

  • The Last Dance

    Detective Miller - 1

    The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who's unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated.Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work fo...

  • The Wrong Hands

    Detective Miller - 2

    This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . .The second rip-roaring mystery from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham starring Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated...Unconvention...

  • What the Night Brings

    Tom Thorne - 19

    What the Night Brings by Mark Billingham is the latest mystery in the bestselling Tom Thorne series, and this time, a killer is targeting the police. Is it payback? And is it justified?“Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime…”The targ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Billingham has published 28 books.

The next book by Mark Billingham, What the Night Brings, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Mark Billingham, Sleepyhead, was published in August 2001.

Yes. Mark Billingham has 2 series.
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