In The Dark

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Billingham currently hosts UKTV's crime podcast A Stab in the Dark. [21] Each episode includes a discussion on a particular theme from crime fiction and crime drama, and has featured guests including David Morrissey, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly and Ann Cleeves. As it turns out, the only final twist seems to be that there is no final twist. Several story lines were not brought to a satisfactory conclusion, and the book ended extremely abruptly. But anything that could conceivably be a twist was explained well before... long after I had suspected them (perhaps because I was constantly looking for a twist. Lady, if you can't figure out a reasonable reason for what you're doing, why do you think I want to read about it? David Leon as DI Adam Perrin, [3] a detective in the Manchester Metropolitan Police and Helen's former fling But what happened when those service men and women went home with no companions to keep their mood up? “It’s when you’re on your own that the trouble starts,” agrees Billingham. Spotting the signs

Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. A gangland shooting has tragic consequences, and Helen is plunged into a murder investigation in Manchester's criminal underworld, forcing her to question everything she holds dear. After graduating with a degree in drama from the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, he helped form a socialist theatre company, Bread & Circuses, in Birmingham. Bread & Circuses toured with shows in schools, colleges, arts centres and the street. [3] In the mid-1980s he moved to London as a "jobbing actor", taking minor roles in episodes of TV shows Dempsey and Makepeace, Juliet Bravo, Boon, and The Bill. [2] [4] After playing a variety of "bad guy roles such as a soccer hooligan, drug addict, a nasty copper, a racist copper or a bent copper", he claimed that he had become disenchanted with acting and that the emphasis was not on talent, but on looks. [3] DI Weeks is a pregnant detective who, in the first two-parter, decides to return to her hometown to investigate the recent disappearance of two young girls. The police’s main suspect turns out to be the husband of an old childhood friend, although it soon becomes clear to Weeks that the man is innocent.

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Emma Fryer as Linda Bates, the wife of Stephen Bates who is the main suspect in the abduction of two young girls. [5] From an early age, Billingham wrote often "funny" stories for popularity and enjoyment. As his interests moved towards crime fiction, he set an early novel (the unpublished The Mechanic) in his native Birmingham. Inspired by the comic-crime work of Carl Hiaasen and other authors, he attempted to use his experience as a stand-up comedian and crime fan to write a similarly comic novel. [2] Ultimately he abandoned the unfinished novel and the comic-crime genre to focus on another book that would become Sleepyhead. The Burning Girl (Little, Brown & Company, July 2004), ISBN 0-316-72574-9; William Morrow US (June 2005), ISBN 0-06-074526-6

WARNING: spoilers for In the Dark episode 4 below. Still catching up? Read Steve’s review of episode 3 here. Paul Hopwood gets killed in what seems to be a tragic accident. But when his highly pregnant life partner Helen starts to ask questions, it soon becomes clear to her, that a few things don´t fit into the picture her colleagues want to draw. And when Paul´s boss shows up at her doorstep and a stranger breaks into her house Helen knows by instinct, that something is terribly wrong. M J ARLIDGE EENY MEENY BOOK YES INSPECTOR HELEN GRACE BOOK. 2 PEOPLE 1 HAS TO KILL THE OTHER 2 SURVIVE GRIPPINGIn Maid Marian and her Merry Men, Billingham played Gary, a dim-but-lovable guard in the employ of the Sheriff of Nottingham ( Tony Robinson), as part of a double-act with Graeme ( David Lloyd).