Mark Billingham wins crime novel of the year award

[Robert]

Death Message, a DI Tom Thorne mystery, wins public vote

Mark Billingham's London copper DI Tom Thorne has seen off Reginald Hill's Yorkshire duo Dalziel and Pascoe and Peter Robinson's much-loved Inspector Banks to take the Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year award at the Harrogate crime writing festival.


Billingham's Death Message is the seventh in his bestselling series of books starring DI Tom Thorne. This time Thorne is receiving photos of murder victims on his mobile phone, as a dangerous psychopath jailed years before manipulates former inmates into conducting his killings for him.

 

[Sleepy]

Hm, I've read the first two books in the series and I'm still not sure if I want to continue.

 

[ylris611203]

It was a fix.