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IN THE DARK
A Novel
Mark Billingham
For Katie and Jack
Contents
2 August 1
Three Weeks Earlier 9
Part One
Lie, Like Breathing 11
One
Helen Weeks was used to waking up feeling sick, feeling… 13
Two
‘Fore!’ 20
Three
Jenny lived north of the river, in Maida Vale, and… 26
Four
Javine was feeding the baby when Theo got in. Cradling… 36
Five
‘Your destination is just ahead on the left-hand side.’ 46
Six
Helen had been in her pyjamas and dressing gown since… 52
Seven
Paul had left home before seven, beating most of the… 59
Eight
There appeared to be at least one crossword and a… 65
Nine
Babies never stopped wanting stuff, Theo reckoned, except when they… 73
Ten
Helen grabbed him on his way to the bathroom. ‘Pinch… 79
Part Two
Stick Men 93
Eleven
The detective inspector was probably a bit more talkative than… 95
Twelve
Another hundred, hundred and fifty pounds a week. 102
Thirteen
Driving from Kennington, she could smell Paul in the car;… 109
Fourteen
Frank Linnell tried to get back for lunch as often… 117
Fifteen
Aside from a few minutes polishing off the remains of… 123
Sixteen
TV monitoring centre that covered most of the West… 134
Seventeen
Some days, Theo might have called in to his mum’s… 145
Eighteen
‘Where d’you get the suit?’ 156
een
There was a late-night grocer’s a few streets down and… 163
Part Three
Wolves and Leopards 173
Twenty
‘I know we’re not supposed to like these places,’ Deering… 175
Twenty-One
SnapZ could not remember what he had been dreaming about. 185
Twenty-Two
The bathroom in Sarah Ruston’s flat was every bit as… 196
Twenty-Three
Helen helped her father clear away the lunch things, then… 206
Twenty-Four
They’d found SnapZ first thing that morning. 218
Twenty-Five
The woman who came in every Monday, the sainted Betty,… 230
Twenty-Six
It had e a thing now. 240
Twenty-Seven
The pub wasn’t far from being ready, and Clive sa