The Wrong Hands: The Next Detective Miller Novel

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.

Author: Mark Billingham
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 07/23/2024
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.90w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780802163097

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2024 pg. 7
Library Journal 05/01/2024 pg. 77
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2024
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2024
Shelf Awareness 08/01/2024

About the Author

MARK BIILLINGHAM has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and also won the Sherlock Award for Best Detective Created by a British Author. His books, which include the critically acclaimed Tom Thorne series, have been translated into twenty-five languages and have sold over four million copies. He lives in London.