Product Description
The Shadow Step (Hardcover)
Author: Mark Billingham
Format: Hardcover
The new Detective Miller thriller from bestselling author Mark Billingham, full of tension, wit and incredible twists.
It’s Detective Miller’s deadliest dance…
The Shadow Step: One taken simultaneously by a pair of dancers facing the same direction, one of them behind and slightly shifted leftwards (‘in the shadow’)
Typically, such a step perfectly demonstrates synchronized elegance. It showcases a couple in near telepathic harmony with one another. It does not normally end with someone stone-dead in a lake.
DS Declan Miller is a magnet for strange cases, but how can he catch a killer when the man confessing to the crime is clearly innocent? Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn’t really a murder at all attracts the unwanted attention of a drugs Queenpin, a deranged ex-squaddie and a lovesick gangland enforcer. Then a student is kidnapped…
Throw in a wobbly dog, a pair of ceramic leopards and the distracting smell from a local biscuit factory, and – if he wants to save a young man’s life – Miller has little choice but to waltz all the way into the shadows.
‘I’m excited to have found a new favourite detective’ — CLAIRE DOUGLAS
‘Edge-of-your-seat tension, wit and heart – fantastic!’ — LISA JEWELL
‘Funny, moving, and full of surprises. An absolute treat’ — MICK HERRON
‘Billingham at his best’ — The Times
‘Combining humor, pathos, and genuine surprise, it’s another home run from Billingham.’ — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
‘The Shadow Step is another Billingham corker’ — Express
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