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Michael Connelly and Mark Billingham in Conversation

We’re excitied to welcome crime powerhouses Michael Connelly and Mark Billingam to Manchester Central Library, in celebration of their respective new releases: Nightshade and What the Night Brings.

Michael and Mark will be interviewed by Phil Williams. The talk and Q&A will be followed by a book signing with both authors. Doors at 6.30pm.

Book & Ticket deals include one copy of your selected title to be collected at the event. Please note that both books will be available for purchase on the night from our bookstall, while stocks last. 

About Nightshade

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland.

But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found wrapped in plastic and weighed down at the bottom of the harbor. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, he starts doggedly working the case.

Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.

About What the Night Brings

The lies are deadly, the truth unthinkable… Tom Thorne returns in Mark Billingham’s 25th novel, with his most shocking case ever.

“Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime.” 

The targeted murder of four officers is only the first in a series of attacks that leaves police scared, angry and, most disturbingly of all, vengeful. As Tom Thorne and Nicola Tanner dig into the reasons for the violence, a deeper darkness begins to emerge: the possibility that these murders are payback. The price paid for an unspeakable betrayal.
To uncover the truth, Thorne will be forced to question everything he stands for. He can trust nobody, and the shocking secrets revealed by one terrible night will fracture his entire world.

About the authors

MICHAEL CONNELLY is the author of thirty-nine previous novels, among them New York Times bestsellers The WaitingResurrection Walk, and Desert Star. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty-nine million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of four television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, The Lincoln Lawyer, and the upcoming Ballard. He spends his time in California and Florida.

MARK BILLINGHAM has won numerous awards, being one of only two authors to twice win the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year. 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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