The Wrong Hands

Mark Billingham does edge-of-your-seat tension, wit and heart like no one else. The Wrong Hands has all that and more - it’s simply fantastic * Lisa Jewell *I adored everything about The Wrong Hands! Darkly funny with colourful characters and a clever, twisty plot that had me laughing out loud one minute and emotional the next. I love Mark Billingham’s writing and I’m excited to have found a new favourite detective in the ballroom dancing, rat-loving DS Miller * Claire Douglas *There is a laugh on every page yet it is the depiction of Miller’s furious grief that is most impressive and provides a heartbreaking finale * The Times *The second instalment of a fine, funny new series – John ConnollyNeat plot twists and a likable cast of offbeat characters, all served up with plenty of black humour * Mail on Sunday *Billingham’s underworld convinces in its brutality, grubbiness and greed, and it is impossible not to cheer for Miller * Literary Review *Electrifying … Throw in a delightfully madcap plot and breakneck pacing, and readers are left with a caper they won’t soon forget * Publishers Weekly *Smart, decisive and funny as heck. Fabulously original, The Wrong Hands now joins its older sister as a star book … Gift-wrapped in Mark Billingham’s fabulous style, The Wrong Hands plays a blinder * LoveReading *Get your hands on both novels to delight in quirky DS Miller * Sunday Times (South Africa) *It would be worth your time and money getting your hands on both novels [The Last Dance and The Wrong Hands] to delight in quirky DS Miller * Sunday Times South Africa *

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British writer. In 2026, he was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre.

Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were adapted into a hit TV series on Sky 1, starring David Morrissey as Tom Thorne. A series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1.

Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.

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