The Shadow Step
The Shadow Step is book 3 in the Detective Miller series by Mark Billingham. DS Declan Miller is asked to investigate a strange case when an innocent man confesses to a death that may not be a murder at all. The situation quickly becomes more complicated as his involvement bring in the attention of several shady people, not to mention a kidnapping that may leave him little time to actually find the truth. The investigation centers around Miller’s eccentric personality, mixing a serious criminal case with weird things that always seem to happen to him.
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Detective Miller is back and investigating his most perplexing case yet
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”)
A perfectly executed shadow step 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 an innocent man confessing to the crime? That’s a first. Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn’t really a murder attracts the unwanted attention of a drug Queenpin, a deranged ex-squaddie, and a lovesick gangland enforcer. And when a real murder follows – and a student is kidnapped – all evidence points back to the same innocent man.
Throw in a wobbly dog, a pair of ceramic leopards, and the distracting smell from a biscuit factory, and Miller’s only option to save a young man’s life is to waltz all the way into the shadows.
Part of the Detective Miller series – see the full reading order on the Mark Billingham Books in Order page.
