The Shadow Step

Mark Billingham

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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.


Author(s): Billingham, Mark
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 02/07/2026
Pagination: 392 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Sphere
Published By: Sphere
Book Classification: Crime & mystery fiction
Dimensions: 238 x 162 x 38
Weight: 620
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781408722022

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