The shadow step
Billingham, Mark2026
Book
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.
Main title:
The shadow step / Mark Billingham.
Author:
Billingham, Mark, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Sphere, 2026.
Collation:
400 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781408722022 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92F
Language:
English
BRN:
4320549