The Wrong Hands: The new intriguing, unique and completely unpredictable Detective Miller mystery
(Paperback)
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Paperback
Published: 1st April 2025
Paperback
Published: 25th June 2024
Hardback
Published: 8th October 2024
Publishing Details
The Wrong Hands: The new intriguing, unique and completely unpredictable Detective Miller mystery
By (Author) Mark Billingham
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
25th June 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: cosy mystery
Physical Properties
Paperback
416
Width 154mm, Height 232mm, Spine 36mm
540g
Description
This is one case Miller won't want to open . . .
Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase . . . containing a pair of severed hands.Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne'er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife's death. Now Miller has leverage, but unfortunately he also has something that both Cutler and a villainous fast-food kingpin are desperate to get hold of.Chuck in a Midsomer Murders-obsessed hitman, a psychotic welder and a woman driven over the edge by a wayward Creme Egg, and Miller is in a mess that even he might not be able to dance his way out of.Author Bio
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.
