In The Dark

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As a 38-week pregnant Helen is about to take maternity leave, she is struck by a personal tragedy which threatens to upend her life. When you advertise a book to capture the attention of your audience with just one aspect, then you are inadvertantly singalling the reader to watch out for

Too many plot lines were set up to be resolved by the end of the 2nd episode without leaving the audience feeling cheated and a bit confused.A third interesting plotline involves a shadowy constructor who has his hands in a lot more but also his own ghosts to deal with. I had written bad poetry as a student and jokes for my stand-up routines and TV scripts when I worked for Granada. It was taut and tensely atmospheric with an intriguing premise which found its heroine caught in the middle between police and prime suspect. The result is disaster for another unlikely family: DS Paul Hopwood and his girlfriend Helen Weeks, who’s carrying a baby that may or may not be his.

That is until they start asking some particularly awkward questions of the man running the case, a senior officer from Helen and Paul’s past played with smug aplomb by Top Boy actor Ashley Walters. The novel's opening is disrespectful to the reader by introducing a mystery, then waiting a long, long while till the story spins back towards that mystery.The gang culture is convincing, and Theo almost becomes a character to empathise with (almost - he was trying to kill somebody.

The promised final twist isn't really that dramatic, and Billingham requires you to make a couple of leaps of faith with him and the characters along the way. BBC One's In The Dark: Author Mark Billingham talks new crime drama BESTSELLING author Mark Billingham admits to having had major doubts about the BBC making a new crime drama using a side-kick from his long-running series of Tom Thorne novels. Things get even worse though, when a violent death changes her life for ever, and puts her at risk as she tries to find out the truth. The plot follows the results of the shooting, the story of the shooter and his "friends", a young pregnant woman looking for answers and a gangster seeking revenge, This is a book that will keep you reading.As this fourth and final hour came to an end, we can look back at a relatively short series that was jam-packed with action and fraught with high emotion.