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, 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.

Torchwood

 * Suzie Costello
 * Jack Harkness (flashback/cameo)
 * Ianto Jones (flashback)
 * Owen Harper (flashback)
 * Toshiko Sato (flashback)

Police

 * DI Tom Cutler
 * Sergeant Andy Davidson
 * DCI Waterman

Government

 * Mr. Black
 * Rick Yates MP
 * Commander Elwood Jackson

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.