The Wrong Hands

Author: Mark Billingham

Crime & mystery | Thriller / suspense

Published on 20^th June 2024 by Little, Brown Book Group (Sphere) in the United Kingdom as part of the Detective Miller series.

Hardback | 416 pages
240mm x 156mm | 0g

Had me laughing out loud one minute and emotional the next. Im excited to have found a new favourite detective --- CLAIRE DOUGLASThis is one case Miller wont want to open . . . Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, 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 neer do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wifes 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.

Chuck 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.