Long Time Dead (novel)

Long Time Dead
Main character(s):	Tom Cutler
Main enemy:	Suzie Costello
Main setting:	Cardiff, October 2009
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Sarah Pinborough
Release details
Release number:	17
Release date:	4 August 2011
Format:	Softcover Book
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84990-284-4
BBC Torchwood novels
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Long Time Dead was the seventeenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series and served as a prequel to The New World, as well as a direct sequel to the events of Children of Earth.

Publisher's summary

Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base. DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance, fascinated by the process. There are people in his dreams. People he feels he should know.

The disbanded Torchwood Institute spent a century accumulating non-terrestrial artefacts and catching aliens. Who knows what – or who – might still be intact down there. But by the time they find the first body, Suzie Costello is long gone.

Characters

• Tom Cutler
• Suzie Costello
• Andy Davidson
• Jack Harkness (flashback/cameo)
• Ianto Jones (flashback)
• Owen Harper (flashback)
• Toshiko Sato (flashback)

References

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Notes

• This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.

The Audiobook cover.

Continuity

• Tom Cutler appears in TWN: Into the Silence and the events of that story are mentioned several times.
• Andy has recently been promoted to Sergeant, and is secretly wondering if the promotion is to "shut him up" following his involvement with the recent 456 crisis.

Timeline

• Long Time Dead occurs after TW: Children of Earth: Day Five (main story).
• Long Time Dead occurs before TW: Children of Earth: Day Five (epilogue).

Audio release

• The story was released as an audiobook on download only from the AudioGo website read by Indira Varma.