After more than two decades, the immensely talented Billingham has come up with a new detective hero to sit alongside DI Tom Thorne, the star of his 18 best-sellers that began in 2001.
Between them, they've sold more than 20million books about the darkest crimes you could imagine, so it can’t come as a surprise that for light relief, they sing songs about murder.
The Last Dance by Mark Billingham; Grave Expectations by Alice Bell; Children of the Sun by Beth Lewis; Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal; The Monk by Tim Sullivan