# The Shadow Step

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- Book: [The Shadow Step](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-billingham/the-shadow-step) ([The Shadow Step.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-billingham/the-shadow-step.md))
- Authors: [Mark Billingham](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-billingham)
- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0556-450-2
- Published: 2026-07-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

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.