In The Dark

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. A uniquely disturbing thriller from the bestselling creator of the Inspector Thorne novels.

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.

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