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Praise for Mark Billingham and Scaredy Cat

"Billingham confirms his promise, and delivers an assured and shocking thriller."
The Guardian

"A brisk, racy read. We shall see a lot more of Tom Thorne."
The Times

"An absorbing mystery."
Sunday Telegraph

"Taut, gripping and stylish. Billingham delivers a chilling exploration of power and submission. Unputdownable."
Time Out

"Scaredy Cat will be, and deserves to be, a bestseller as it stands head and shoulders above the competition."
Birmingham Post

"An incredibly dark, brilliant thriller."
London Evening Standard

"Billingham manipulates his readers as relentlessly as the murderer manipulates both his surrogate in crime, and the police ."
The Scotsman

"Billingham has a chilling talent.Right up there with this country's dark masters such as Ian Rankin and Val McDermid."
Daily Mirror

"Black and bloodcurdling"
Bizarre

"Genuine edge-of-the-seat stuff. Billingham keeps the reader guessing as to the principal killer's true identity right to the very end. Television and film adaptations must surely follow.
What's On In London

“Like the best of British and American crime writing rolled up together and delivered with the kind of punch you don’t see coming.”
Lee Child

“A plethora of pleasures in these pages”
USA Today

"Heady psychological suspense runs through the hip, flawlessly plotted Scaredy Cat. Mark Billingham again creates a contemporary twilight zone that feels all too real."
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"Readers who like a powerful police procedural with strong characters, will want to read this superb tale. This is a winner."
Midwest Book Review

"With last year's auspicious thriller debut (Sleepyhead), Billingham has given himself a tough act to follow. But the return of London detective Tom Thorne is most welcome, and this novel is every bit as intense and creepy as the first."
Library Journal

Scaredy Cat is an incredibly satisfying and engaging thriller.”
Karin Slaughter – author of Kisscut.

“Mr. Billingham has created a story as frightening as it is riveting. Pushing the English police procedural to another level."
Dallas Morning News

“One of the best books of the year. Don’t miss it.”
Toronto Globe and Mail

“These are frightening and starkly graphic thrillers that you won’t easily forget. Grade A.”
Rocky Mountain News

 

Other reviews

Sleepyhead

Scaredy Cat

Lazy Bones

The Burning Girl

Lifeless

Buried

Death Message

 

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