In The Dark by Mark Billingham
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.
'Right up there with this country's dark masters such as Ian Rankin and Val McDermid' Time Out '[A] brisk, racy read' The Times 'Assured and shocking thriller' The Guardian 'A cunning variation on the serial-murder theme' Sunday Telegraph 'Scary, pell-mell, cliff-hanging thriller' Literary Review
Mark Billingham is a stand-up comedian. He received the 2003 Sherlock Award for Best Detective created by a British writer and won the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for best crime novel of the year. He has also been an award-winning children's writer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408700693 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408700697 |
| Title | In The Dark |
| Author | Mark Billingham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2008-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010, Short-listed for CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 2009 |
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