Detective Miller Series (Books 1-3) The Last Dance, The Wrong Hands, The Shadow - Mark Billingham

Written by Mark Billingham
Read by David Threlfall
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*The Last Dance
The first new series from #1 bestseller Mark Billingham in 20 years.

Meet Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated…

He’s a detective, a dancer, he has no respect whatsoever for authority ­- and he’s the best hope Blackpool has for keeping criminals off the streets. Meet Detective Declan Miller.

A double murder in a seaside hotel sees grieving Miller return to work to solve what appears to be a case of mistaken identity. Just why were two completely unconnected men taken out?

With a distinctly loose relationship with reality and a new partner to deal with, can eccentric, offbeat Miller find answers where more traditional police have found only an impossible puzzle?

*The Wrong Hands,
This is one case Miller won’t want to open . . .

Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase . . . containing a pair of severed hands.

Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne’er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife’s death.

Now Miller has leverage, but unfortunately he also has something that both Cutler and a villainous fast-food kingpin are desperate to get hold of.

Chuck in a Midsomer Murders-obsessed hitman, a psychotic welder and a woman driven over the edge by a wayward Crème Egg, and Miller is in a mess that even he might not be able to dance his way out of.

*The Shadow
The new Detective Miller thriller from bestselling author Mark Billingham, full of tension, wit and incredible twists.

‘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

‘The Shadow Step is another Billingham corker’ Express

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…