Ray Holt launders money for a Manchester criminal gang. He is also stealing from them - and has talked himself into believing that makes him the hero.

When discovery becomes inevitable, Holt's solution is Knott: a hitman found via a business card on a pub toilet floor, professional in the way that a blunt instrument is professional, and not entirely sane.

What follows is a darkly comic, pitilessly plotted thriller about a man who believes he is one smart move ahead of everyone around him - and the catastrophic cost of being wrong. Sharp, funny, and genuinely unsettling, Darker with the Day confirms Trevor Mark Thomas as one of the most distinctive voices in British crime fiction and Northern Noir's most compelling stylist.