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 In the Dark - Mark Billingham
 In the Dark - Mark Billingham ... BrownNewest Review: ... by the same rules as the police. The victim's partner, a police officer on maternity leave as she's 8 months pregnant, is ... more ... also keen to find out more, especially as it appears that her partner was keeping secrets from her.
This is typically Billingham, throwing the reader straight into the heart of the story and moving it on from there. From the first page, you know this is going to be a story about gangs in London, but it soon becomes apparent it will go deeper than that. As more and more information comes to light, the story becomes more rounded and you get to follow the main characters as they set about life and death matters.
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In the Dark - Mark Billingham: Don't Fear the Dark (933 words)
by - written on 06/11/08 (Very useful, 70 readings)
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I've been a fan of Mark Billingham and his DI Tom Thorne character since his debut novel. Like many series do, though, I did feel that a couple of the more recent novels suggested that Billingham was running out of ideas of things to do with Thorne. So it was a minor relief that his latest novel "In the Dark" was to be a standalone one, even if early optimism was dulled by the rather clichéd tagline "...it's where fear lives", which didn't seem quite in keeping with Billingham's normal style. Late one night, a driver sees a car travelling with no lights on. Being a good citizen, she flashes her own lights to warn them. Unfortunately ... Read the complete review
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