The Burning Girl

“[An] edgy contemporary thriller...a satisfyingly complex plot.” - Sunday Times (London)

“[Billingham is] one of today’s best (and most innovative) crime writers... disturbing mayhem is his stock-in-trade... [The Burning Girl] takes familiar police procedural elements and shakes them by the throat, finding new and intriguing twists... a disturbing and ruthlessly compelling novel.” - Sunday Express (London)

“A disturbing and ruthlessly compelling novel. - Sunday Express (London)

“Billingham scores highest in his ability to write scenes that are genuinely chilling and frightening. Just four books in, he’s up there with the best.” - The Observer

“Mark Billingham’s well-earned reputation for edgy, all-encompassing dark novels about London’s underbelly is raised another notch with his fourth novel. The Burning Girl’s breathless plot is balanced by moral complexities that ooze into every crevice, including the police investigation. Billingham’s intelligent approach delivers not just a solid police procedural but also an insightful look at people and who they might become when pushed.” - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

“A ruthlessly compelling novel.” - Sunday Express (London)

“The Burning Girl cements [Billingham’s] hero, Tom Thorne, into the ranks of fictional British policemen whose careers we will follow with interest.” - Birmingham Post

“Realistic, compelling... The Burning Girl is a graphic novel that lays bare man’s inhumanity to man but still manages to tug at the heartstrings.” - Orlando Sentinel