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The text presents the author’s background and bibliography, followed by publication and copyright notices from Sphere. It then provides a dedication and a contents outline for the novel, organizing the story into numbered steps, beginning with Step One: The Soldier & the Sausage Dog and continuing through multiple chapters.","Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British writer and in 2026 he was awarded the Crime Writers’Association Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as DI Tom Thorne, 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.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAlso by Mark Billingham  \nThe DI Tom Thorne series Sleepyhead Scaredy Cat Lazybones The Burning Girl Lifeless Buried Death Message Bloodline From the Dead Good as Dead The Dying Hours The Bones Beneath Time of Death Love Like Blood The Killing Habit Their Little Secret Cry Baby The Murder Book What the Night Brings  \nThe DS Declan Miller series The Last Dance  \nThe Wrong Hands  \nOther fiction In the Dark Rush of Blood Die of Shame Cut Off (Quick Reads) Rabbit Hole  \nDigital originals  \nDancing Towards the Blade and Other Stories Thorne at Christmas  \nAudio original  \nThe Other Half (with My Darling Clementine)  \nNon-fiction Great Lost Albums (as co-author)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright  \nPublished by Sphere  \nISBN: 978-1-408-72204-6  \nCopyright © Mark Billingham Ltd 2026 The moral right of the author has been asserted.  \nAll characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  \nAll rights reserved.  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.  \nSphere An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group Carmelite House  \n50 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0DZ  \nThe authorised representative in the EEA is Hachette Ireland  \n8 Castlecourt Centre Dublin 15, D15 XTP3, Ireland  \n(email: [info@hbgi.ie](info@hbgi.ie))  \nAn Hachette UK Company  \n[www.hachette.co.uk](www.hachette.co.uk)[ ](www.hachette.co.uk)[www.littlebrown.co.uk](www.littlebrown.co.uk)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDedication  \nFor Ed Wood.  \nThis one might not be one of yours, but thank you for all those that were.  \nAnd for the fun you made it. And for the chicken, obviously.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nMy little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.  \nEdith Wharton  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nStep One: The Soldier & the Sausage Dog  \nOne  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nFive  \nSix  \nSeven  \nEight  \nNine  \nTen  \nEleven  \nTwelve  \nThirteen  \nFourteen  \nFifteen  \nStep Two: Balaclavas & Biscuits  \nSixteen  \nSeventeen  \nEighteen  \nNineteen","cbCairL8mY3gB6Ub","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairL8mY3gB6Ub","pdf",5711808,329,"English","en",105,"## Dedication\n## Step One: The Soldier & the Sausage Dog\n## Step Two: Balaclavas & Biscuits","[{\"question\":\"Who is Mark Billingham and what awards has he received?\",\"answer\":\"Mark Billingham has won major British crime-writing awards, including Theakston Old Peculier Award twice and the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger for lifetime contribution. 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