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 
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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.
Plot Edit
to be added
Characters Edit
Torchwood Edit
Police Edit
- DI Tom Cutler
- Sergeant Andy Davidson
- DCI Waterman
Government Edit
- Mr Black
- Commander Elwood Jackson
References Edit
Notes Edit
- This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
The Audiobook cover.
Continuity Edit
- Tom Cutler appears in PROSE: 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. (TV: Day Five)
- One of the empty packing crates in the ruins of the Hub is labelled "Colasanto". (TV: End of the Road)
- Suzie recalls shooting Jack through the head. (TV: Everything Changes)
Audio release Edit
- The story was released as an audiobook on download only from the AudioGo website read by Indira Varma.
External links Edit
- Official Long Time Dead page at Penguin Books
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