The Shadow Step

The remarkable Detective Miller is back with a riveting new mystery

By: Mark Billingham

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Paperback | 30 June 2026 | Edition Number 1

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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

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.

Industry Reviews

Mark Billingham does edge-of-your-seat tension, wit and heart like no one else - Lisa Jewell

The very best in the business - Richard Osman

Exceptionally gifted storytelling - Karin Slaughter

One of Britain's greatest crime writers - Daily Mail

Mark Billingham is one the biggest names in crime fiction and one the genre's most formidable talents - Peter James

Funny, moving, and full of surprises . . . an absolute treat

This new series is bursting with wit, charm and intriguing, complex characters

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