The Wrong Hands, Mark Billingham
The Wrong Hands, Mark Billingham
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The Wrong Hands
A New Detective Miller Novel

Author: Mark Billingham

Narrator: David Threlfall

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/23/2024


Synopsis

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.

About Mark Billingham

Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and has 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 six million copies. He lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on January 14, 2025

3.5★ “ ‘So, what are we going to do?’ ‘Well, we could put an ad in the local paper’s lost and found section. You know,“If you’re struggling to wave at friends or having trouble applauding, we might have a couple of things that belong to you”, but I doubt the individual to whom these were once attache......more

Goodreads review by Damo on July 17, 2024

Detective Sergeant Declan Miller returns for a second outing in The Wrong Hands. The policeman is still mourning the death of his wife, Alex, and continues to hound the homicide team tasked with the job of finding the killer. In the meantime, he and his long-suffering partner Detective Sergeant Xiu......more

Goodreads review by Judy on August 01, 2024

This is the second book in the Detective Miller series, but I missed the first one. I have only read one other book by Mark Billingham, Rabbit Hole, so I'm still learning his writing style. Description: This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from multi......more

Goodreads review by Kate on June 26, 2024

Really enjoyed this! I'm one of those fools who tends not to realise when they've stumbled onto a detective series only to realise it's been going for a decade. Thankfully, The Wrong Hands is only the second outing for DI Miller and I bought The Last Dance halfway through this because it was so much......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on July 04, 2024

The second novel in this Blackpool-based series, once again, sees Detective Sergeant Declan Miller trying to solve the murder of his wife Alex, a Serious Crimes Officer. To say Declan is eccentric is putting it mildly. He has a fondness for ballroom dancing and two pet rats called Fred and Ginger. T......more