The Shadow Step: The remarkable Detective Miller is back with a riveting new mystery
Jul 2026 · Hachette UK
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About this ebook
The new Detective Miller thriller from bestselling author Mark Billingham, full of tension, wit and incredible twists.
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 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.
PRAISE FOR THE DETECTIVE MILLER SERIES:
'The very best in the business' RICHARD OSMAN
'Billingham is at his best' KARIN SLAUGHTER
'Simply fantastic' LISA JEWELL
'I'm excited to have found a new favourite detective' CLAIRE DOUGLAS
'Funny, moving, and full of surprises . . . an absolute treat' MICK HERRON
'This new series is bursting with wit, charm and intriguing, complex characters' JANICE HALLETT
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 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.
PRAISE FOR THE DETECTIVE MILLER SERIES:
'The very best in the business' RICHARD OSMAN
'Billingham is at his best' KARIN SLAUGHTER
'Simply fantastic' LISA JEWELL
'I'm excited to have found a new favourite detective' CLAIRE DOUGLAS
'Funny, moving, and full of surprises . . . an absolute treat' MICK HERRON
'This new series is bursting with wit, charm and intriguing, complex characters' JANICE HALLETT
About the author
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.
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