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Believing himself responsible for the deaths of a pregnant woman and her fiancâe during a shooting, Theo reluctantly follows his gang brother, Easy, on a string of increasingly lucrative and dangerous crimes as part of an effort to avoid getting caught.
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“A stand-out thriller….[A] remarkable achievement.” —Chicago Sun-Times Hailed as one of the UK’s strongest contemporary thriller writers—the British Dennis Lehane—Mark Billingham may be the most exciting author to hit the noir fiction scene in years. With In the Dark, Billingham steps briefly away from his bestselling series featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne (Sleepyhead, Scaredy Cat, Lazybones, et al) and delivers a powerful story of cops, street gangs, and career criminals that twists and turns into dark, unexpected areas. In the Dark is a magnificent achievement by a modern master who’s been compared enthusiastically to Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, and George Pellacanos, and whose latest novel, Death Message, has recently been named the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
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