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The Last Dance: A Detective Miller case - the first new Billingham series in 20 years

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Billingham imbues Miller with a brilliant sense of humor and populates the margins of this well-paced mystery with lovable, fully fleshed characters whom readers will adore. It’s interesting to see the eccentric Declan in a variety of situations with different people to see how they respond to his humour. You were desperate for a day or two to catch your breath or even just looking to recharge your batteries after a major inquiry and someone decided to poison their husband or stab a passer-by because they didn't like their trainers. He's a detective, a dancer, he has no respect whatsoever for authority ­- and he's the best hope Blackpool has for keeping criminals off the streets. I liked the dynamic between the two characters, their differences and similarities ensure there’s always something interesting happening.

The fact Alex had been investigating the Cutler family prior to her death complicates things, and as Miller gets closer to the truth, he realizes the danger is walking right up to his doorstep. I was thrilled to learn that a new series was on the way, and I already know it is going to be one of my all-time favourites. The first few pages set up the main character, plot, and series with aplomb, I was deliberately knocked slightly off-kilter and then bang, things fell into place and I was as hooked as a hooked thing can be. If you've come looking for the chilling darkness, and sometimes brooding tone, of a Tom Thorne novel, then you are not going to find it in this book.

He is partnered with new DS Sara Xiu, and their first case is the double murder of two seemingly unrelated men in a hotel.

The coloured lights from more than a million lamps seem to dance above the town’s main street and their reflections shimmer on the surface of the black sea just beyond. Xiu doesn’t know whether to take Miller seriously or not, and Miller, for his part, whether Xiu can be trusted. Knowing that his wife was assassinated or that Miller makes really bad jokes all the time, they should provided him with a vest for those reasons alone!While his conversation is full of banter, jokes, sarcasm, and taking the mickey out of people, he is not a shallow man, and we get the sense that Alex, who had her own wild years before they met, understood that. He’s a detective, a dancer, he has no respect for authority – and he’s the best hope Blackpool has for keeping criminals off the streets. Declan Millar is a right pain to work with, seemingly taking nothing seriously, flouting authority and deliberately taking things the wrong way to wind up his senior colleagues.

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