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"In the Dark" is Billingham's most powerful novel yet. Gritty, fierce, and moving, it is a must-listen for anyone who likes their crime fiction unflinching—and unforgettable.
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. (Oct.)
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Kyle Simpson
reviewed In the Dark on December 03, 2020
In the Dark
This is an earlier novel by one of my favourite English authors which I'd somehow overlooked before. Effectively a standalone, although it does feature a cameo by his usual protagonist DI Tom Thorne.
The prologue kicks off at a blistering pace with a drive by shooting near a bus stop. The action then switches to three weeks earlier and centres around the eight months pregnant DC Helen Weeks who works in the Child Protection Unit and her partner Paul Hopwood, a detective sergeant in a CID team. There is also a large unsavoury cast of teenage gangbangers and ageing career criminals. The details of what really happened in the prologue are revealed bit by bit and each new revelation is more shocking than the previous. Throughout, there is a pervading atmosphere of unlimited menace.
I've always enjoyed the way that Mark Billingham portrays the dark underbelly of London streetlife and this thrilling novel is another great example.
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