Torchwood: Long Time Dead

Name: Torchwood: Long Time Dead
Brand: Penguin Random House UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah Pinborough
ISBN: 9781445871905

Author: Sarah Pinborough

Narrator: Indira Varma

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BBC Digital Audio

Published: 10/01/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base. DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance, fascinated by the process. There are people in his dreams. People he feels he should know. The disbanded Torchwood Institute spent a century accumulating non-terrestrial artefacts and catching aliens. Who knows what - or who - might still be intact down there? But by the time they find the first body, Suzie Costello is long gone. Based on the hit series created by Russell T. Davies and written by Sarah Pinborough, Long Time Dead is a prequel to Torchwood: Miracle Day, starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles as Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper. It features Suzie Costello, as played by Indira Varma. NB: Contains strong language, sexual references and graphic scenes of violence.

About Sarah Pinborough

Sarah Pinborough is the number one Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the psychological thriller Behind Her Eyes, and more than twenty other novels and novellas, including The Death House and a young adult thriller, 13 Minutes. She has also written for the BBC. She lives in England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on September 23, 2022

This is a book that is based on the television series. It takes place between seasons three and four. In this one Suzie Costello once again rises from the dead and we follow her exploits. The problem is that Torchwood is no more and who is out there to stop her. This media tie in book did not do much......more

Goodreads review by Ken on March 23, 2020

Set prior to Miracle Day as this adventure sees the return of Suzie Costello as this novel references (will spoil) most of the first three series of Torchwood. The side mystery surrounding a series of suicides around Cardiff seems to show the damaging after effects that the secret organisation can ha......more

Goodreads review by Liam on September 16, 2025

Suzie Costello has been brought back from the dead (again) and once again, there are deadly problems in Cardiff. This book was fine but it didn’t grip me. I would have liked to see Suzie back in the TV series (as had originally been planned) and in this book, I just didn’t feel that she was totally......more

Goodreads review by Amy on January 24, 2012

I actually really enjoyed this book. I loved Suzie in the series, I always thought she had so much potential and was sad to see her go so soon, so it was nice to see her back in action in this book. I do kind of wish Andy would have been in it slightly more, seeing as he is one of my favorite charac......more

Goodreads review by Karen Ford on February 03, 2018

Thoroughly enjoyed this novel, even with just token appearances by the Torchwood characters (mostly in flashbacks). I liked the switching back and forth between the back from the dead Suzie Costello, who is now on a killing spree, and the detective investigating the murders and a rash of suicides co......more