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The Shadow Step

The remarkable Detective Miller is back with a riveting new mystery

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The Shadow Step

By: Mark Billingham
Narrated by: David Threlfall
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The new Detective Miller thriller from bestselling author Mark Billingham, full of tension, wit and incredible twists.

'I'm excited to have found a new favourite detective' CLAIRE DOUGLAS

'Edge-of-your-seat tension, wit and heart - fantastic!' LISA JEWELL

'Funny, moving, and full of surprises. An absolute treat' MICK HERRON

'Billingham at his best' The Times

★ 'Combining humor, pathos, and genuine surprise, it's another home run from Billingham.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW

'The Shadow Step is another Billingham corker' Express

It's Detective Miller's deadliest dance...

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')

Typically, such a step perfectly 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 how can he catch a killer when the man confessing to the crime is clearly innocent? Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn't really a murder at all attracts the unwanted attention of a drugs Queenpin, a deranged ex-squaddie and a lovesick gangland enforcer. Then a student is kidnapped...

Throw in a wobbly dog, a pair of ceramic leopards and the distracting smell from a local biscuit factory, and - if he wants to save a young man's life - Miller has little choice but to waltz all the way into the shadows.©2026 Mark Billingham Ltd (P)2026 Little, Brown Book Group Limited Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedurals Thriller & Suspense Crime Exciting Murder Detective
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★ Combining humor, pathos, and genuine surprise, it's another home run from Billingham.
Billingham at his best (Mark Sanderson)
Miller is a brilliant creation and The Shadow Step is another Billingham corker (Matt Nixson)
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So pleased I gave DS Miller a go, brilliantly narrated & written! Made me laugh out loud often and Im going to miss all the characters… please write book 4 quickly 🙏🏻

Love it

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really enjoyed looking forward to the next one and helpfully a lot more well done mark

good story plenty of humour

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These Det. Miller books are just amazing. They are enhanced so much by the narration of David Threlfall, his ability to do male and female voices so convincingly just gives them that special edge. All characters are well thought out and believable and I just wish I could have a new book every few days on a loop.

I need these books on a loop!

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As usual, Mark Billingham writes a cracking story. Narration really fitted with the story and was read brilliantly. Definitely looking forward to the next installment

Great book

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Really enjoy the Miller series of books; I really hope that there are more planned. That said, I’ve enjoyed everything Mark Billingham has written, so as long as more books are planned, I’ll be happy.

Love the series

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