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The Wrong Hands

By Mark Billingham
The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham digital book - Fable

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This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . .

The second rip-roaring mystery from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham starring Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated...

Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Well, two problems. First, there's his dead wife and her yet-to-be-solved murder. He really should stop talking to her ghosts...

Second, and most pressing, 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.

Sprinkle in a Midsomer Murders-obsessed hitman, a psychotic welder, and a woman driven over the edge by a wayward Crème Egg, and Miller is in a mess that even he might not be able to dance his way out of.

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“I truly enjoyed the first book in this series but had worried that the light touch wouldn't carry into the second book. What a pleasure to realize that it did carry over! In some ways, Miller reminds me of Logan MacRae's involvement with the dangerous mob types in his town (in this case, Blackpool). However, in the more important ways, he's a completely new creation: ballroom dancing, partnering with a motorcycle riding-heavy metal loving woman, trying to maintain a relationship with his murdered wife's daughter, and keeping Fred and Ginger, his pet rats. And, of course, being a brilliant detective who manages to solve cases despite being consumed with rage over the homicide squad not doing their best to find who murdered his wife. Despite that, as I said, there's a definite light tone here. He loves puns and bad jokes. The ballroom dancing group are charming, and good foils for the police colleagues (but not amateur detectives like those in the Thursday Murder Club). Of course the mystery in this book is wrapped up neatly - perhaps a little too neatly - but there are ongoing threads to be unravelled. Here's to book three! eARC provided by publisher via Netgalley.”

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