The Other Half, Mark Billingham
The Other Half, Mark Billingham
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The Other Half

Author: Mark Billingham, My Darling Clementine

Narrator: Mark Billingham, Mark Billingham

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/21/2015

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

The Other Half is a unique collaboration between the leading lights of mystery fiction and country music. An original story by bestselling crime writer Mark Billingham, soundtracked by the powerful and poignant songs of internationally acclaimed Americana duo My Darling Clementine.

Pain, loss, violence. The lifeblood of crime fiction, but also the dark seam that runs through the very best country music.

With her best years seemingly behind her, a former Las Vegas showgirl works double shifts in a rundown Memphis bar. Alone and estranged from her daughter, Marcia lives life vicariously through her customers and the everyday tragedies of people falling in and out of love. These are moving tales of grief and heartbreak, lust, murder and domestic horror. Serving beer and burgers as these very different stories unfold, Marcia reflects on her single doomed shot at happiness. Then one day, she receives a phone call that changes everything...

About Mark Billingham

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terrie on November 14, 2023

The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell is is a Contemporary Mystery-Suspense Story! Rupert has his thirtieth birthday party at a McDonald's. It's black-tie, a catered affair with lots of drugs and very expensive champagne. Who does that? I do believe this was the first sign this book wasn't for me. The ne......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on December 07, 2022

4+ stars An incredibly well suited and booted gentleman with perfect diction to match courteously books the upstairs room in McDonald’s, Kentish Town (North London)which is usually reserved for children’s parties. He places a food order, generously tips the staff for their silence and the lack of CC......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Always Behind) on November 20, 2023

If this was actually a police procedural novel I would have liked it. The writing is solid and the parts with the crime, mystery, and police efforts were interesting and well done. The rest though, particularly the IDIOT characters, was insufferable. I am way too old for that nonsense. Nell, specifi......more