The Shadow Step

<p><b><H2>The new Detective Miller thriller from bestselling author Mark Billingham, full of tension, wit and incredible twists.</H2></b><Br><b><Br>'I'm excited to have found a new favourite detective'</b> CLAIRE DOUGLAS</p><p><b>'Edge-of-your-seat tension, wit and heart - fantastic!'</b> LISA JEWELL</p><p><b>'Funny, moving, and full of surprises. An absolute treat' </b>MICK HERRON</p><p><b>'Billingham at his best' </b><i>The Times</i></p><p><b>★</b> '<b>Combining humor, pathos, and genuine surprise, it's another home run from Billingham</b>.' <i>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</i>, STARRED REVIEW</p><p><i>'<b>The Shadow Step</b></i><b> is another Billingham corker</b>' <i>Express</i></p><p><b><H2>It's Detective Miller's deadliest dance...</H2></b></p><p><i>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')</i><Br><Br>Typically, such a step perfectly demonstrates synchronized elegance. It showcases a couple in near telepathic harmony with one another. <b>It does not normally end with someone stone-dead in a lake.</b><Br><Br>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...<Br><Br>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.</p>