In The Dark
The most gripping thriller you'll read this year
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4.2 • 37 Ratings
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
'A stunning novel . . . The final twist is brilliantly clever and shocking' The Times
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A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But the reality is far more sinister...
One life is wiped out and three more are changed forever: the young man whose finger was on the trigger; an ageing gangster planning a deadly revenge, and the pregnant woman who struggles desperately to uncover the truth. Two weeks away from giving birth, how will she deal with a world where death is an occupational hazard?
In a city where violence can be random or meticulously planned, where teenage gangs clash with career criminals and where loyalty is paid for in blood, anything is possible. Secrets are uncovered as fast as bodies, and the story's final twist is as breathtakingly surprising as they come.
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What real readers say about In the Dark
'I was gripped from the first few pages. Intrigue, twists, turns and an ending that left me enthralled' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'An absolute must if you like crime fiction!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Kept me guessing right until the reveal... Another great read from Mark Billingham who never lets me down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Kept me turning the pages wanting desperately to get to the end but also not wanting the book to finish' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Cracking good read, twists and unexpected turns galore' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The line between cop and criminal becomes dangerously blurred in Billingham's excellent stand-alone thriller. Told from multiple points-of-view and full of red herrings, the story begins in the London suburbs with a gang initiation. Hoping to climb the ranks in a local gang and egged on by his friends, 17-year-old Theo Shirley fires a gun into a woman's car on a rainy night. The woman isn't killed, but her car plows into a crowded bus stop, killing Det. Sgt. Paul Hopwood. Paul's pregnant girlfriend, Det. Constable Helen Weeks, also a member of the Metropolitan Police, can't accept that his death was an accident. She retraces his footsteps and discovers unsettling connections between Paul and Frank Linnell, a powerful player in the shadowy London underworld with his own reasons for unraveling Paul's death. Best known for the Det. Insp. Tom Thorne series (Buried, etc.), Billingham does for South London what Richard Price does for Manhattan's Lower East Side in Lush Life.
