The Last Dance

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.

The series of crime novels featuring London-based detective Tom Thorne continued with Scaredy Cat and was followed by Lazybones, The Burning Girl, Lifeless, Buried, Death Message and Bloodline. The latest in the series – From The Dead – is published in August 2010. Mark is also the author of the standalone novel In The Dark as well as a series of children’s thrillers –Triskellion – written under the pseudonym Will Peterson.

A television series based on the Tom Thorne novels will be screened on Sky One in Autumn 2010.
Mark is currently writing the next Tom Thorne thriller. He lives in London with his wife and two children.