{"product_id":"good-as-dead-by-mark-billingham-832ae","title":"Good as Dead by Mark Billingham","description":"\u003cp\u003eBillingham's most desperately gripping read yet' Daily Mirror  Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagents on her way to work. It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but she is about to come face to face with a gunman.  The hostage-taker is desperate to know what happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding Helen at gunpoint, he will force a re-investigation into his son's death. And one man knows the case better than any other - DI Tom Thorne.  As the body count rises, Thorne must race against time to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life.  Taking place over three action-packed days, this is the fastest and most surprising Thorne thriller yet from Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham.  'One of the great series of British crime fiction' The Times  'A new Mark Billingham is always a treat' Susie Steiner  ________________  The outstanding new Tom Thorne thriller, THEIR LITTLE SECRET, is available to pre-order now  Editorial Reviews  Review Just as we become used to (and are perhaps wearying of) the influx of foreign crime novels, here comes Mark Billingham with a thoroughly British police thriller?Time Out  The best thrillers make you see familiar territory in a new light. Mark Billingham has always done that?Sunday Telegraph  Taut and tense, with an unusually sympathetic hostage-taker?The Times  With DI Tom Thorne's 10th outing, Mark Billingham proves he's a real contender for the title of the nation's top crime writer?Daily Mirror  Utterly engaging... The series' page-turning credentials remain more than intact?Independent on Sunday Books of the Year  About the Author Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41829223399498,"sku":"832ae","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_55189002-3a42-49cd-bb66-e4b6fb35b9cd.png?v=1764435606","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/good-as-dead-by-mark-billingham-832ae","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}