Discover the second of the two masterful hit novels adapted for the massive new BBC One Drama series In The Dark, featuring brilliant heroine Helen Weeks - continuing from number one bestseller Time of Death.

'Billingham produces an astonishing final twist'
Sunday Telegraph

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. Two weeks away from giving birth, how will she deal with a world where death is an occupational hazard?

In a city where violence can be random or meticulously planned, where teenage gangs clash with career criminals and where loyalty is paid for in blood, anything is possible. Secrets are uncovered as fast as bodies, and the story's final twist is as breathtakingly surprising as they come.

The hugely acclaimed latest novel in Mark Billingham's bestselling series, Love Like Blood, is out now.

About the Author
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.

Reviews
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 *


Awards
Short-listed for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010 (UK) and CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 2009 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9780751566147
Author Mark Billingham
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Sphere
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 308g
Dimensions(mm) 348mm * 206mm * 29mm