Order of Mark Billingham Books

Mark Billingham is an English novelist of comic-crime fiction. He is also a screenwriter, actor and comedian. As a novelist, he is best known for his Tom Thorne series. He started reviewing books in order to get complimentary copies, thus saving money. Eventually, he began writing and came up with his Tom Thorne character. Billingham also writes with Peter Cocks as Will Peterson.

Mark Billingham became a published fiction author in 2001 with Sleepyhead. Below is a list of Mark Billingham’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Tom Thorne Books

Sleepyhead	(2001)
Scaredy Cat	(2001)
Lazybones	(2003)
The Burning Girl	(2004)
Lifeless	(2005)
Buried	(2006)
Death Message	(2007)
Bloodline	(2009)
From The Dead	(2010)
Good as Dead / The Demands	(2011)
The Dying Hours	(2013)
Thorne at Christmas: A Short Story Collection	(2013)
The Bones Beneath	(2014)
Time of Death	(2015)
Love Like Blood	(2017)
The Killing Habit	(2018)
Their Little Secret	(2019)
Cry Baby	(2020)
The Murder Book	(2022)

Publication Order of Triskellion Books

(as Will Peterson)

Triskellion (As:Will Peterson)	(2008)
The Burning (As:Will Peterson)	(2009)
The Gathering (As:Will Peterson)	(2010)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Knight School	(1998)
In the Dark	(2008)
Rush of Blood	(2012)
Die of Shame	(2016)
Cut Off	(2018)
Rabbit Hole	(2021)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Great Lost Albums (With: David Quantick,Martyn Waites,Stav Sherez)

(2014)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Dancing Towards the Blade and Other Stories

(2013)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Like a Charm	(2004)
Criminal Tendencies	(2009)
The Killer Cookbook	(2012)
Inherit the Dead	(2013)
OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters	(2014)
Crime Writers: A Decade of Crime	(2016)
Dead Simple	(2017)

Notes: Good as Dead is alternatively titled The Demands. The Triskellion books are written alongside Peter Cocks under the collective pseudonym of Will Peterson. Knight School is also co-authored by Peter Cocks. Crime Writers: A Decade of Crime also has stories by Ann Cleeves, Harlan Coben, P.D. James, Val McDermid and Steve Mosby. Great Lost Albums was written with David Quantick, Stav Sherez and Martyn Waites.

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One Response to “Order of Mark Billingham Books”

1. augustgphs: 2 years ago

   Whatever happened to Heather Trumbull from Their little secret

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