Long Time Dead (novel)

Long Time Dead was the seventeenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series and served as a prequel to The New World.

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

Continuity
Tom Cutler appears in TWN: Into the Silence 

Timeline

 * Long Time Dead occurs after: TW: Children of Earth: Day Five
 * Long Time Dead occurs before: TW: The New World