In The Dark: The most gripping thriller you'll read this year

In The Dark: The most gripping thriller you'll read this year

by Mark Billingham (Author)

Synopsis

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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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Reprint.
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 19 Mar 2009

ISBN 10: 0751539937
ISBN 13: 9780751539936
Book Overview: * Extensive advertising campaign Featuring London underground and Adrail posters * Street Art out side major Stations * Full-page press ad in the Times Playlist * Internet promotion and website advertising
Prizes: Shortlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010 and Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award 2009.

Media Reviews
A stunning novel ... the final twist is brilliantly clever and shocking * The Times *
Billingham produces an astonishing final twist to complete his most ambitious and most accomplished book * Sunday Telegraph *
Chilling...A story with a twist that I guarantee even veteran crime fiction aficionados won't see coming * Evening Herald *
A virtuoso performance by Billingham * Daily Mail *
Author Bio
Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year, and has also won a Sherlock Award for the Best Detective created by a British writer. Each of the novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has been a Sunday Times bestseller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1 starring David Morrissey as Thorne, 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.