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As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me as much as anyone else. If I can remain interested in the character, then hopefully the reader will stay interested, too.

~Mark Billingham

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I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

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Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

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I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.

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Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.

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A good agent will sometimes need to be a scrapper, and that's the one you want.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 2nd, 1961

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