Mark Billingham writes British crime fiction best known for the Tom Thorne series. Sleepyhead introduces Thorne through a killer whose surviving victim has been deliberately left unable to move or communicate, while Scaredy Cat, Lazybones and later novels continue through serial crimes, missing persons and cases that increasingly involve Thorne's colleagues and private life. Billingham also writes standalones and the Declan Miller series, which combines police investigation with a more eccentric detective voice. His books are dark, fast and character-led without abandoning procedural detail. They fit British crime, police procedural and serial-killer thriller for readers who want a long-running London-based detective series. Read more Less