1st July – Mark Billingham & Abir Mukherjee
Schedule
Wed Jul 01 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
54 Godwin Court, SN1 4BB Swindon, United Kingdom | Swindon, EN
Mark Billingham is the bestselling author of titles including Sleepyhead, Bloodline and What the Night Brings. He’s with us to celebrate the release of his newest hardback, The Shadow Step.Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of Hunted, The Burning Grounds and A Rising Man. He’s coming along to celebrate the release of his next novel, The Pinnacle.
Join us at 7.00pm on Wednesday 1st July to hear them talk about their books. There’ll be an opportunity to ask your questions and get your books signed as well!
You won’t get a physical ticket, we’ll add your name to our list and let you in on the night!
The Shadow Step – Mark Billingham
The Shadow Step: One taken simultaneously by a pair of dancers facing the same direction, one of them behind and slightly shifted leftwards (‘in the shadow’)
Typically, such a step perfectly demonstrates synchronized elegance. It showcases a couple in near telepathic harmony with one another. It does not normally end with someone stone-dead in a lake.
DS Declan Miller is a magnet for strange cases, but how can he catch a killer when the man confessing to the crime is clearly innocent? Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn’t really a murder at all attracts the unwanted attention of a drugs Queenpin, a deranged ex-squaddie and a lovesick gangland enforcer. Then a student is kidnapped…
Throw in a wobbly dog, a pair of ceramic leopards and the distracting smell from a local biscuit factory, and – if he wants to save a young man’s life – Miller has little choice but to waltz all the way into the shadows.
The Pinnacle – Abir Mukherjee
Washed-up American heart-throb George Abercrombie hates India, even from the rarified heights of his apartment on the 68th floor of the Pinnacle, Mumbai’s grandest luxury skyscraper. He hates the noise, he hates the heat and maybe he’s even grown to hate his much younger wife, the newest queen of Bollywood, Sweety Sahota.
When George wakes from a drunken stupor to find Sweety murdered in their bedroom, he knows he will be the prime suspect. But where is her computer, her phone – and where has his personal assistant gone?
As George scrambles to piece together the night, others in the building are covering their tracks. Sweety’s assistant must find who is blackmailing her, and a servant who knows too much goes on the run.
Welcome to the Pinnacle. A place where murder meets luxury and the world’s most privileged depend on the most desperate.
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54 Godwin Court, SN1 4BB Swindon, United Kingdom, Swindon, United Kingdom
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