We are extremely excited to welcome bestselling author Mark Billingham to the bookshop to celebrate the publication of his latest standalone thriller, Rabbit Hole. He will be in conversation with fellow crime writer Chris Brookmyre. They will both join us in the bookshop and their socially distanced conversation will be streamed live to attendees viewing from home.

My name is Alice. I’m a police officer. I’m trying to solve a murder on a psychiatric ward. But I’m also a patient… They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored, treated, cared for. But now one of their number is found murdered, and the accusations begin to fly. Was it one of his fellow patients? A member of staff? Or did someone come in from the outside? DC Alice Armitage is methodical, tireless, and she’s quickly on the trail of the killer. The only problem is, Alice is a patient too.

Mark Billingham was born in Birmingham and worked as an actor, TV writer and stand-up comedian before publishing his first novel Sleepyhead in 2001. The novel launched a successful series featuring the London detective Tom Thorne, going on to inspire an acclaimed television run for Sky One featuring David Morrissey, as well as a BBC adaptation. Billingham is also the author of the bestselling standalone novels In the Dark, Rush of Blood and Die of Shame.

Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full-time novelist with the publication of his award-winning debut Quite Ugly One Morning in 1996, which established him as one of Britain’s leading crime authors. His novels have sold more than two million copies in the UK alone, and Black Widow won both the McIlvanney Prize and the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. Brookmyre is also one half of Ambrose Parry, the pseudonym for his collaborative novels with Marisa Haetzman.

When you purchase a copy of Rabbit Hole via the options below, you will also receive access to the livestream of the event. There is also an option to purchase a £3 voucher which provides access to the livestream. The voucher can be used on any item in the bookshop and on our website – including books by featured authors.

Rabbit Hole by Mark Billingham