Mark Billingham

Mark Philip David Billingham (born July 2, 1961 in Solihull , England ) is an English author of crime novels .

British crime writer Mark Billingham at the "Mord am Hellweg" festival in Hagen in October 2014.

Life

Billingham grew up in Birmingham, studied drama and was a member of the theater group Bread & Circuses for a while , until he moved to London in the mid-1980s, worked as an actor and took on supporting roles in television series such as The Bill , Dempsey and Makepeace, Juliet Bravo and Boon . From 1989 to 1994 he played a goofy king's guard in the children's series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men .

Since 1987 he has appeared regularly as a stand-up comedian , was seen in various comedy series on British television and regularly took on the role of MC in the legendary comedy store in Hollywood.

He made his first writing experiences as a co-author of several episodes of Maid Marian and Her Merry Men . In the following years he wrote scripts for other TV series such as Harry's Mad (based on the novel by Dick King-Smith ), What's That Noise? and Knight School , in which he was also repeatedly seen as an actor.

His first detective novel was published in 2001 and opened the series around Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, which made Billingham famous, translated into numerous languages, won several awards and was made into a film by the BBC - with David Morrissey in the role of Tom Thorne.

Billingham fell victim to a crime in 1997 when he and Peter Cocks, with whom he has co-authored several scripts, were kidnapped, handcuffed and robbed in a room of a Manchester hotel . Billingham cited the incident as the inspiration for his second novel, Scaredy Cat ( The Tears of the Murderer , 2002).

Mark Billingham lives in London with his wife and two children.

Works

the Tom Thorne series

• Sleepyhead , 2001
  • The kiss of the sandman , German by Helmut Splinter; Goldmann, Munich 2002. ISBN 3-442-45227-9
• Scaredy Cat , 2002
  • The Tears of the Murderer , German by Isabella Bruckmaier; Goldmann, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-442-45537-5
• Lazybones , 2003
  • The flowers of death , German by Isabella Bruckmaier; Goldmann, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-442-45730-0
• The Burning Girl , 2004
  • Blood sign , German from Isabella Bruckmaier; Goldmann, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-442-45913-3
• Lifeless , 2005
  • In the hour of death , German by Isabella Bruckmaier; Goldmann, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-442-46095-6
• Buried , 2006
  • The mistress of the murderer , German by Isabella Bruckmaier; Goldmann, Munich 2007. ISBN 3-442-46306-8
• Death Message , 2007
  • The blood of the victims , German by Isabella Bruckmaier. Goldmann, Munich 2008. ISBN 3-442-46095-6
• Blood Line , 2010
  • The guilt of the blood , German by Isabella Bruckmaier; Goldmann, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-442-47327-4
• From The Dead , 2010
  • Deadly suspicion , German by Thomas Bauer; Goldmann, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-442-47698-5
• Good As Dead , 2011
• The Dying Hours , 2013
• The Bones Beneath , 2014
  • The manipulator , German by Irene Eisenhut; Heyne, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-453-43832-3
• Time of Death , 2015
  • Time to Die , German by Irene Eisenhut; Heyne, Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-453-41951-3
• Love Like Blood , 2017
  • Love Like Blood , German by Peter Torberg ; Atrium, Zurich 2017. ISBN 978-3-85535-020-9
• The Killing Habit , 2018
• Their Little Secret , 2019
  • A heart and no soul , German by Stefan Lux; Atrium, Zurich 2020. ISBN 978-3-85535-076-6
• Cry Baby , 2020

other novels

• In The Dark , 2008
  • The Confession of the Dead , German by Isabella Bruckmaier; Goldmann, Munich 2009. ISBN 3-442-47020-X
  • also as: The Shards of Truth , same translation; Atrium, Zurich 2015. ISBN 978-3-85535-057-5
• Rush Of Blood , 2012
  • The Lies of Others , German by Peter Torberg; Atrium, Zurich 2014. ISBN 978-3-03792-052-7
• The of Shame , 2016
  • The shame of the living , German by Joachim Körber ; Atrium, Zurich 2016. ISBN 978-3-85535-010-0

Audio books

• Sleepyhead . Clipper Audio, Leicester 2003, ISBN 1-84197-900-7 (10 CDs, read by Christopher Kay).
• Scaredy Cat . Clipper Audio, Leicester 2003, ISBN 1-84197-854-X (12 CDs, read by Christopher Kay).
• Lazybones . Clipper Audio, Leicester 2004, ISBN 1-84505-041-X (10 CDs, read by Steve Perring).
• Burning girl . BBC Audiobooks America, Hampton, NH 2005, ISBN 0-7927-3714-8 (8 CDs, read by Graeme Malcolm).
• Lifeless . Clipper Audio, Leicester 2006, ISBN 1-84632-372-X (12 CDs, read by Paul Thornley).
• Buried . Clipper Audio, Leicester 2006, ISBN 1-84632-684-2 (12 CDs, read by Paul Thornley).
• Death message . Clipper Audio, Leicester 2008, ISBN 978-1-84632-724-7 (11 CDs, read by Paul Thornley).
• Bloodline . Hachette Digital, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-4055-0724-0 (5 CDs, read by Robert Glenister).
• From the dead . Hachette Digital, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4055-0841-4 (5 CDs, read by Robert Glenister).
• Good as Dead . Isis, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-1-4450-1641-2 (10 CDs, read by Mark Billingham).
• The Dying Hours . Highbridge Audio, Minneapolis MN 2013, ISBN 978-1-62231-281-8 (8 CDs, read by Mark Billingham).
• The Lies of Others [ Rush of Blood ], Jumbo, DA Music, ISBN 978-3-8337-3343-7 , (4 CDs, spoken by Stefan Kaminski )
• The Shards of Truth [ In the Dark ]; Jumbo, Neue Medien Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-8337-3477-9 (4 CDs, spoken by Katja Danowski )

Film adaptations

• Thorne: Sleepyhead , 2010 (Eng. The Sandman's Kiss ), directed by Stephen Hopkins
• Scaredy Cat , 2010 ( The tears of the murderer , director: Benjamin Ross)

Web links

Commons : Mark Billingham  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Mark Billingham in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mark Billingham in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Mark Billingham website
• German publisher site