He is a self-confessed fan of crime fiction, "as well as a really serious collector" [3] and has stated that the expense of collecting books inspired him to get into interviewing and reviewing books, partly for the complimentary copies. 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. At the same time, killed in the same way, a second body is discovered at the back of King's Cross station. The first three episodes were an adaptation of Sleepyhead and were directed by Stephen Hopkins ( 24, Californication, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers).

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After all, it is almost impossible not to associate John Thaw with Inspector Morse, however much he might differ from the character in Colin Dexter’s books. In the year 2009, the novel was listed as one of the 100 novels which shaped the decade and was later chosen as one of the best titles for World Book Night in 2011.In Maid Marian and her Merry Men, Billingham played Gary, a dim-but-lovable guard in the employ of the Sheriff of Nottingham ( Tony Robinson), as part of a double-act with Graeme ( David Lloyd). Starting with a local newspaper, he progressed to providing reviews and interviews for SHOTS, and then to magazines, including Time Out, where he interviewed Michael Connelly and others. However, when he becomes involved in a homicide the police receive the best out of him professionally, but his behavior turns atrocious. The first half of the book deals with Thorne's discovery that there are really two killers at work and introduces the childhood backstory of the murderers.

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At the outset of Billingham’s slow-burning 13th Tom Thorne novel (after 2014’s The Bones Beneath), the detective inspector’s girlfriend, Det.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. Like the best of British and American crime writing rolled up together and delivered with the kind of punch you don’t see coming. In 2001, Billingham's first crime novel, Sleepyhead, was published in the UK by Little, Brown and Company. While he was at Knight School, he was nominated for the Best Children’s Drama Award for two consecutive years.