EAIFL 2010 author, Mark Billingham has won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award at the Harrogate crime writing festival. His London policeman DI Tom Thorne saw off Reginald Hill's Yorkshire duo Dalziel and Pascoe and Peter Robinson's much-loved Inspector Banks!

Mark Billingham’s novel Death Message beat strong competition to scoop this sought after prize on the opening night.