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Audible exclusive. Mark Billingham joins us to talk about his new book, Die of Shame. Who will die? Who will be betrayed? Who will kill? Talking about stepping out of his comfort zone to keep it fresh, the challenges of writing a series and much, much more. About Die of Shame: full of betrayal, deceit and suspense, Die of Shame is the spectacular new book from number-one best seller Mark Billingham - author of Time of Death and In the Dark, both soon to be major BBC series.

We recommend that you download this combined spoken word and music audiobook using Audible’s Enhanced Audio download option. The Other Half is a unique collaboration between the leading lights of mystery fiction and country music. An original story by best-selling crime writer Mark Billingham soundtracked by the powerful and poignant songs of internationally acclaimed Americana duo My Darling Clementine.

So many things that could have been different. An almost infinite number of them: the flight of the ball, the angle of the bat, the movement of his feet as he skipped down the pitch. The weather, the time, the day of the week, the whatever. The smallest variance in any one of these things or in the way that each connected to the other at the crucial moment and nothing would have happened as it did. An inch another way or a second or a step and it would have been a very different story.

Discover one of the two masterful hit novels adapted for the massive new BBC One Drama series In The Dark, featuring brilliant heroine Helen Weeks. Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up. But this is a place full of secrets, where dangerous truths lie buried. When family man Stephen Bates has been arrested, Helen and her partner Tom Thorne head to the flooded town....

Tom Thorne is back in charge - but there's a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried 25 years before. But only if Thorne agrees to escort him. Unable to refuse, Thorne gathers a team and travels to a remote Welsh island, at the mercy of the weather and cut off from the mainland. Thorne is determined to get the job done and return home before Nicklin can outwit them.

A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Such things are not unknown to the police and the deaths are quickly dismissed by the police as routine. Only one man is convinced that something more sinister is taking place.However, no one listens to Tom Thorne anymore. Having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform and he hates it. Patronised and abused by his new colleagues, Thorne's suspicions about the suicides are dismissed by the Murder Squad he was once part of and he is forced to investigate alone.

Jessica Clarke had been set alight 20 years ago. Her attacker, quickly tracked down and eager to confess, is still in jail, his career as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer, and claiming that he is one who burned the girl?

Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father, berated for overstepping the mark on his last case, he's been 'encouraged' to take leave. It's a fairly dire situation. But not as dire as the situation for London's homeless. Three vagrants have been found murdered in the last month. Were they just random jetsam, or were they targeted for a reason?

Someone, a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman, is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children, now adults and nowhere to be found. How can you escape a past that will do a lot more than just catch up with you?

For 15 years, Janet has been married to her devoted and boring husband, Trevor. But their marriage was not as simple as it seemed. Now Janet is on the road, hurtling towards another man, and another life. Has she found freedom, and the strength to escape Trevor’s dominating fetishes? Or is there something far more sinister waiting for her at the crematorium?

It seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had herself been murdered fifteen years before by infamous serial killer Raymond Garvey. The hunt to catch Garvey was one of the biggest in the history of the Met, and ended with seven women dead.

Discover one of the two masterful hit novels adapted for the massive new BBC One Drama series In The Dark, featuring brilliant heroine Helen Weeks - continuing in number one best seller Time of Death. A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister....

When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life - because she’s just spent 10 years in prison for organising his murder. When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined young private investigator, to find him.

The Sounds of Crime is an exclusive collection of five brand new short stories by some of the best crimewriters around. Using the theme of 'audio', this unique collection features brand new stories by Lawrence Block, Peter James, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham and Christopher Fowler.

In a vicious, calculated murder, a victim is selected at Euston Station, followed home, and strangled in front of her child. When a second body is discovered, killed in the same way at King's Cross station, DI Tom Thorne comes to a horrifying conclusion: this is not one killer, but two.

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder.... Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked couples return home, they remain in contact, and over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties they come to know one another better.

En död kvinnokropp hittas i en lägenhet i norra London. Det märkliga är att i den dödas hand finner kriminalkommissarie Tom Thorne blodstänkta plastbitar som tycks komma från en röntgenbild. Ännu märkligare blir det när det visar sig att även offrets mamma har mördats, men för femton år sedan, och då av seriemördaren Raymond Garvey. Sju kvinnor miste livet för hans hand i ett av stadens mest uppmärksammade rättsfall.

Kriminalkommissarie Tom Thorne har sett många lik i sina dagar. Men när han börjar få hotfulla meddelanden och vidriga foton av döda människor skickade till sin mobiltelefon har en gräns passerats. Thorne inser att han har att göra med en extremt farlig mördare och att han själv svävar i fara. Polisen söker desperat efter en koppling mellan Thorne och avsändaren. Ingen förstår varför mördaren vänder sig just till honom. Det tycks vara personligt - någon vill säga honom något. Till sist blir det Thorne själv som pusslar ihop ledtrådarna.

Det förflutna går ej att begrava. Sextonårige Luke Mullen är försvunnen. Senast sågs han av sina skolkamrater när han steg in i en bil med en äldre kvinna bakom ratten. De är oklart om hans försvinnande är frivilligt eller om han förts bort. Polisen är övertygad om att de har med en kidnappning att göra. Luke är son till ett högre polisbefäl och har en stabil bakgrund. Det finns inga spår av dåligt uppförande, psykiska problem eller missförhållanden. Polisen är väl medveten om att ju längre tiden går, desto mer troligt är det att Luke kommer att hittas död.

En del liv är mindre värdefulla än andra Det ser ut som om karriären är över för kriminalkommissarie Tom Thorne. Han är deprimerad sedan faderns död, kritiserad för att ha överträtt sina befogenheter i sin senaste mordutredning. Hans frivilliga tjänstledighet är en kort och gott odräglig tillvaro för en ambitiös polis. Men inte så odräglig som den är för Londons hemlösa. Tre män hittas mördade med en tjugopundsedel fastnitad vid bröstet. Är dessa män endast några alkoholister, drogmissbrukare och utstött? Eller ligger det något annat bakom morden?