Tom Thorne audiobooks in order

Tom Thorne is a London detective with a taste for country music and a habit of taking cases personally. Billingham was a stand-up comedian before he was a novelist and reads almost all of the books himself.

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Mark BillinghamNarrated by Mark Billingham reads his own books, except The Burning Girl, which the UK store has only as an abridgement read by Roger Lloyd Pack · 19 books

Which order should you listen in?

Publication order, with one wrinkle: Cry Baby is a prequel set in 1996, before Sleepyhead, and can be taken first, though it was written with the later books in mind. The Burning Girl is the one title not read by the author on the UK store, and the only recording of it there is abridged.

Tom Thorne in publication order

  1. 1Sleepyhead (2001)
  2. 2Scaredy Cat (2002)
  3. 3Lazybones (2003)
  4. 4The Burning Girl (2004)
  5. 5Lifeless (2005)
  6. 6Buried (2006)
  7. 7Death Message (2007)
  8. 8Bloodline (2009)
  9. 9From the Dead (2010)
  10. 10Good as Dead (2011)
  11. 11The Dying Hours (2013)
  12. 12The Bones Beneath (2014)
  13. 13Time of Death (2015)
  14. 14Love Like Blood (2017)
  15. 15The Killing Habit (2018)
  16. 16Their Little Secret (2019)
  17. 17Cry Baby (2020)
  18. 18The Murder Book (2022)
  19. 19What the Night Brings (2025)

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