The Twilight Streets (novel)

The Twilight Streets was the sixth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series.

Publisher's summary
It's the start of a Cardiff autumn - the days are getting shorter, the dark evenings settling in. There's a part of Cardiff that no one goes to much. No crime, no murders, just they stay away. A collection of old rundown houses and gloomy streets. Something's not quite right there, something is off-kilter. Except now, the Council are renovating the area. And a new company have been employed to do this. And look: they're going to organise street parties to show off the gentrified area. Clown and face-painters for the kids, street magicians for the adults. None of this is Torchwood's problem. Except that Tosh recognises the man sponsoring the street parties when she's passing one day: Bilis Manger!

Characters

 * Captain Jack Harkness
 * Gwen Cooper
 * Toshiko Sato
 * Owen Harper
 * Ianto Jones
 * Bilis Manger
 * Idris Hopper
 * Rhys Williams

Continuity

 * The main story takes place between TW: Meat and TW: Reset (Rhys is aware of Torchwood and Owen is alive), although the featured alternate timeline takes place after TW: Reset as Owen is dead and Gwen and Rhys are married.
 * The alternate future Rhys and Gwen make reference to his saving her life with the Singularity Scalpel. (TW: Something Borrowed)
 * In the alternate timeline, Gwen and Rhys have a son who they name Jack Ianto Geraint Williams, after Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, and Gwen's father Geraint. In the real timeline, they will have a daughter Anwen (TW: The New World).
 * Idris Hopper, Margaret Blaine's secretary in DW: Boom Town is a major character in this novel.
 * The main story takes place circa August 2008. Idris and Jack's conversation establishes that it has been 22 months since they last met, and that their last meeting was a month after DW: Boom Town. Boom Town took place circa September 2006, being six months after DW: World War Three.
 * Toshiko Sato was responsible for The Toaster Incident, (TW: Exit Wounds) plus Tosh and UNIT "...are not mates". (TW: Fragments)
 * An explanation is given that during the events of DW: Boom Town, Captain Jack confined the team to the Hub to stop them meeting his past self and contaminating his timeline.
 * Rhys Williams and Gwen Cooper are making the final plans for their wedding. (TW: Something Borrowed)
 * The phrase Turn Left (DW: Turn Left) is used frequently to describe the events leading to an alternate future.
 * Charlie Gaskell's team is stated to have first discovered and used Torchwood's alien cryo-tech in 1906. (This would seem to contradict TW: Fragments in which Jack is frozen in 1901. Furthermore, Tosh states in TW: To the Last Man that Torchwood had been using the technology since "Victorian times" Perhaps Torchwood had rudimentary cryonic technology in the Victorian era, but later upgraded to a more advanced system in 1906.)
 * Bilis Manger predicts Owen's death on a couple of occasions, accompanied by a spectral image of the gun that kills him. (TW: Reset)
 * Bilis Manger also appears to predict Ianto's death (TW: Children of Earth: Day Four) while also hinting something about him by asking is anyone ever knew who and what he really was.

For Torchwood 3

 * The Twilight Streets occurs after TW: Adam
 * The Twilight Streets occurs before TW: Reset

Alternative timeline

 * The Twilight Streets occurs after an alternative version of TW: Something Borrowed