Rabbit Hole: The new masterpiece from the Sunday Times number one bestseller

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There’s a murder in the hospital and Al wants to help investigate. She has a friend in the Police and asks him for information but this doesn’t get her very far. Another standout part of the novel was the psychiatric ward setting. While already an eerie place, once patients start becoming murder victims, you’ll feel the dread alongside Alice as she’s trapped inside and races to catch the killer. Billingham knows how to play with the expectations of the reader, making every plot twist hit hard and fast.

The creator of DI Tom Thorne presents a stand-alone whodunit with a most unusual setting: the psychiatric ward of a northwest London hospital. Mark is also a regular contributor to radio and TV and is a member of the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers, a combo of bestselling crime and thriller writers who performed at the Glastonbury Festival in 2019. Billingham creates the dark, claustrophobic world of the psychiatric ward with immense skill and heart.”— Eve Chase, author of The Glass House We are introduced to the cast of Fleet Ward which is amusing in itself. It sounds like snow white naming the seven dwarfs (The Waiter, The Singer, The Sheep etc..), or naming the characters from the film the dirty dozen (Tiny tears, the Grand Master, L-Plate…).A gripping standalone thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Tom Thorne novels. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Immense skill and heart'Eve Chase ' Brilliant, suspenseful, poignant, heartbreaking, surprisingly funny'Linwood Barclay 'One of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today'Gillian Flynn

Alice, is a former Police Officer – or was she !!! who has been retired on medical grounds. Alice draws on her life’s experience in the Forces to solve the murder of her friend Kevin, who is killed in a mental institution. The problem is, Alice is also a patient, but that doesn’t hinder her, nor does the dismissive nature of the investigating team. Instead, Alice begins her own investigation and goes about her duties with the prowess, proficiency, and know-how one would expect from a competent police office who has solved so many crimes during her distinguished career. Alice Armitage is (or, at least, believes she is) a former police officer who is now a patient on a psychiatric ward, suffering from PTSD after her partner Jonno is stabbed to death during a routine investigation. When one of her fellow patients is murdered, Alice secretly mounts her own investigation and becomes convinced she knows who the killer is. Unfortunately, a few days later, Alice’s suspect becomes the second victim. Now, what do think when you hear the title? Merriam Webster defines a rabbit hole as "a complexly bizarre or difficult state or situation conceived of as a hole into which one falls or descends." What I would have liked to read, based on the synopsys: a complex, realistic depiction of life and (unnatural) death on a mental health ward, driven by complex, well-rounded characters and suffused with atmosphere, with maybe some sarcasm, darkness and/or social commentary thrown into the mix. Billingham's picture of the ward and its staff is full of humanity, leaving us with a clear sense that this kind of illness could affect any of us, and the story offers an excellent twist. He gets better and better. * Literary Review *Billingham’s picture of the ward and its staff is full of humanity, leaving us with a clear sense that this kind of illness could affect any of us, and the story offers an excellent twist. He gets better and better.”— Literary Review Rabbit Hole is authentic, raucous and deeply compassionate. Expertly balancing humour, tension and pathos, it'll do for the psychiatric ward what The Thursday Murder Club has done for retirement villages. A deeply compelling read * Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange * After witnessing her police partner’s murder, Alice Armitage experiences a psychotic episode and is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. She is suffering from PTSD and has been self-medicating with alcohol and drugs. While living on the psych ward, Alice befriends the other patients. When her new friend, Kevin, is brutally murdered on the ward, she decides to begin her own investigation into the case. She is an expert at this because she is a police officer. Or is she? Who murdered Kevin? Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham. Having worked for some years as an actor and more recently as a TV writer and stand-upcomedian his first crime novel was published in 2001. Brilliant, suspenseful, poignant, heartbreaking, surprisingly funny, and Mark Billingham, magician that he is, pulls that proverbial rabbit out of the hat at the end. More than just about any other book I've read, I HAD to know how it would all come together * Linwood Barclay *