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MARK BILLINGHAM - Good As Dead , in hardback , First Edition / Impression published by Little , Brown in 2011 .

This book is signed by the author - I met Mark at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival .

A novel featuring Tom Thorne - this is the tenth one .

" The Hostage Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work . Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever . It's the last place she expects to be met with violence , but as she waits innocently at the till , she comes face to face with a gunman . The Demand . The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son , who died a year before in youth custody . By holding a police officer at gunpoint , he will force the one man who knows more about the case than any other to re-investigate his son's death . That man is DI Tom Thorne . The Twist . While Helen fights to stay alive and the body-count rises , Thorne must race against time if he is to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life . "

About Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham . Having worked for some years as an actor and more recently as a TV writer and stand-up comedian his first crime novel was published in 2001 . Sleepyhead was an instant bestseller in the UK . It has been sold widely throughout the world and was published in the USA in the Summer of 2002 .

Though still occasionally working as a stand-up comic , Mark now concentrates on writing the series of crime novels featuring London-based detective Tom Thorne . The second novel , Scaredy Cat was published in July 2002 and was followed in 2003 by Lazybones ...

Mark lives in North London with his wife and two children .

Very good condition - some creasing and slight scuffing to the dust jacket - quite a decent copy .

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