In The Dark

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Ultimately, though, this is a gritty and realistic crime drama, certainly in keeping with Billingham's normal high standards.

A dark and complicated pair of interwoven tales, each follows Greater Manchester Police’s Detective Inspector Helen Weeks as she juggles pregnancy with taking down some pretty vicious criminals. It's pointless and stupid; asking us to follow a character when we don't know his goal is just going to get frustrating and annoying. We’ve seen female badasses on the small screen plenty of times in the past – particularly in crime dramas – but there’s something about the unique and realistic portrayal of a flawed but resilient and iron-willed woman here that really stands out. Billingham produces an astonishing final twist to complete his most ambitious and most accomplished book.If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added. Helen and Paul continue to have misapprehensions about the case, bolstered by the advice of their colleague Phil, an MPD coroner. If you read a lot, it’s not uncommon that one book reminds you of another, and one storyline reminded me of a film, the other a book.

One life is wiped out and three more are changed forever: the young man whose finger was on the trigger; an ageing gangster planning a deadly revenge, and the pregnant woman who struggles desperately to uncover the truth. Because, as we read on, and are introduced to Helen, Paul, Easy, Theo, Kevin and Frank, among others, we don't learn enough of who they are.Two girls have been abducted, and the man arrested is married to Helen's childhood best friend, Linda. It's a cheap ploy and it's pulled off like an amateur who's just written a crime novel because "it's easy".