Val Penny ♦ May 20, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment
I bought Time of Death from Mark Billingham last year at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writers’ Festival, but my “to be read” file was so big it took me several months to get around to reading it. Mark Philip David Billingham is an English novelist, actor, television screenwriter and comedian whose series of “Tom Thorne” crime novels …
Val Penny ♦ September 27, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment
Before I attended the Bloody Scotland Crime Writers’ Festival this year, I had to complete Death Message by Mark Billingham that I had bought even longer ago and had forgotten about. I enjoy Mark Billingham’s novels, so I made time to complete this book too. Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham. Having …
Val Penny ♦ June 25, 2015 ♦ 3 Comments
I like the English novelist Mark Philip David Billingham and I enjoy his books so when my daughter gave me The Burning Girl for Christmas, I was delighted. He was born and brought up in Birmingham, England and worked for some years as an actor, TV writer and stand-up comedian before his first crime novel, Sleepyhead, was published in …
Val Penny ♦ July 14, 2014 ♦ Leave a comment
I really do enjoy Mark Billingham novels. I have recently discovered that he also works as a stand up comedian and has done very funny shows with the Scottish author Christopher Brookmyre. Other books by this author are reviewed here, https://bookreviewstoday.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/in-the-dark-by-mark-billingham/, https://bookreviewstoday.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/scaredy-cat-by-mark-billingham/, https://bookreviewstoday.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/sleepyhead-by-mark-billingham/. Billingham was born Mark Philip David Billingham in Birmingham, England on 2 July, …
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