Scaredy Cat (Tom Thorne Novels)

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Like the best of British and American crime writing rolled up together and delivered with the kind of punch you don’t see coming. With last year’s auspicious thriller debut (Sleepyhead), Billingham has given himself a tough act to follow.

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The body of a second murder victim, strangled in the same manner, turns up the same day, and Thorn and his team surmise they have a serial killer on their hands. This theme was later fed into his novel that if one person is able to scare someone so much, then they can make them do anything.Prior to filming, David Morrissey commented on how he became involved with the role: "I was doing a film in New Zealand, on my own, in winter. Tom and his team investigate the twin killings on the extraordinary concept that a pair of serial killers working in tandem committed the crimes. Billingham's detective character Inspector Tom Thorne first appeared in his 2001 debut novel Sleepyhead. Mark Billingham Is an English novelist whose series of Tom Thorne are the best selling in the genre of Crime Novels. The general theme of Scaredy Cat is really the power of fear, and that fear is a very powerful weapon, and if you are prepared to instil it, you have a very powerful weapon that is every bit as dangerous as a gun or a knife.

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In the year 1988, mark Billingham was seen on the children’s comedy series news at twelve in which the central character broadcasts his own TV news bulletin every evening. It is a grisly coincidence that eerily echoes the murder of two other women, stabbed to death months before on the same day. The series comprises two three-part dramatisations of the first two Thorne novels, Sleepyhead and Scaredycat. Sky1's Thorne adaptation started broadcasting in October 2010, with actor David Morrissey starring as Tom Thorne. Mark attended the King Edward VI camp Hill school which was a Boys grammar school located nearby Kings Heath.He also cites the big ending, and "pullback and reveal", whereby the audience or reader is led along a specific path and lulled into thinking that they can guess the twist, before "boom! In September 2015 Billingham and co-host Michael Carlson released the six-part podcast The Crime Vault Live, [20] with the last episode released in January 2016. He supposed that the expense of collecting books inspired him to get himself into reviewing books, and interviewing. At the outset of Billingham’s slow-burning 13th Tom Thorne novel (after 2014’s The Bones Beneath), the detective inspector’s girlfriend, Det. Robinson, Lloyd and Billingham remain friends, and Robinson is partially credited for Billingham's literary career on the DVD release of Maid Marian (Series 3), in which the three discuss writing for the series and in general.

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Billingham claims to have imbued Thorne with many of his own characteristics, such as a birthday, a locale (London), and a "love of country music both alt and cheesy". A fourth victim is still alive, and might be able to identify her assailant, except that she cannot communicate as she has been left with locked-in syndrome. According to Billingham, power is a very powerful weapon that is every bit as dangerous as a knife or a gun. In this novel, Billingham created detective inspector Tom Thorne for his debut novel sleepyhead where a case of locked in syndrome reveals the dark dept of a twisted mind, as a dept at toying with the detective inspector as with the victims.But whilst the methods might be the same Thorne comes to realise that he is hunting two very different killers. An acclaimed television series based on the Thorne novels was screened on Sky One in Autumn 2010, starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne.