The Shadow Step: A Detective Miller Novel

"Readers rejoice! A captivating new series from Mark Billingham--the very best in the business."--Richard Osman, #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club

Detective Miller is back and investigating his most perplexing case yet

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")

A perfectly executed shadow step 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 an innocent man confessing to the crime? That's a first. Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn't really a murder attracts the unwanted attention of a drug Queenpin, a deranged ex-squaddie, and a lovesick gangland enforcer. And when a real murder follows - and a student is kidnapped - all evidence points back to the same innocent man.

Throw in a wobbly dog, a pair of ceramic leopards, and the distracting smell from a biscuit factory, and Miller's only option to save a young man's life is to waltz all the way into the shadows.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Crime
Published: 07/21/2026
ISBN: 9780802167354
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.50d

Review Citations: Library Journal 04/10/2026 pg. 1
Booklist 05/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 05/11/2026