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Mark Billingham
The Wrong Hands
in conversation with Sarah Pinborough
Saturday 12 April 2025
7.30pm - 8.30pm; £10/£7
Waterstones, Unit 72, Midsummer Place
Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3GA
‘Billingham is the best in the business’ - Richard Osman
Multi-bestselling Mark Billingham – one of our most acclaimed and popular crime writers – brings his brilliant, twisty new detective novel The Wrong Hands to MK, in conversation with bestselling author Sarah Pinborough. Join us for MK Lit Fest’s criminally entertaining festival finale!
Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase . . . containing a pair of severed hands. This is one case Miller won’t want to open . . .
He knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne’er do well Wayne Cutler – a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife’s death. Now Miller has leverage, but unfortunately he also has something that both Cutler and a villainous fast-food kingpin are desperate to get hold of. Chuck in a Midsomer Murders-obsessed hitman, a psychotic welder and a woman driven over the edge by a wayward Crème Egg, and Miller is in a mess that even he might not be able to dance his way out of.
About Mark Billingham
Mark Billingham has won numerous awards, being one of only two authors to twice win the Theakston’s Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year. His novels have now sold over 6.5 million copies and he has spent over 150 weeks in the top ten. Rabbit Hole, his 2020 novel, was named as Crime Book of the Year by The Times. Each of his novels has been a Sunday Times bestseller, including all those in his two series, Tom Thorne and Declan Miller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1, and 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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About Sarah Pinborough
Sarah Pinborough is an award-winning and New York Times, Sunday Times, and internationally bestselling author and screenwriter who is published in over 30 territories worldwide. Having published more than 25 novels across various genres, her recent books include Behind Her Eyes, now a smash-hit Netflix limited series; Dead to Her, in development with Amazon Studios; The Death House, which she is adapting herself for Compelling Pictures; and her most recent book Insomnia, which she has adapted for Left Bank Pictures, starring Vicky McClure. Her haunting new thriller, We Live Here Now, comes out in June.
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