David Mark
Website: http://www.david-mark.co.uk/
Books by David Mark
The Guest House
A single mother running some rooms to let becomes unwittingly involved with local – and not so local – gangsters, shattering her fragile peace in the remote Scottish Highlands.
Reviewed on 23 October 2021 by Kerry Hood
Cages
A single mother on the run, escaping her traumatic past with her son, has found a place as a guard in one of Britain’s northern prisons, where she seems settled at last. But all this is turned on its head by a highly intelligent villain with escape on his mind.
Reviewed on 25 June 2021 by Kerry Hood
The Burying Ground
Disgraced academic Cordelia Hemlock is in the graveyard of a village in the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall when a storm brings down a tree which crushes a mausoleum, revealing a fresh corpse among the crumbling bones.
Reviewed on 19 December 2020 by John Cleal
Cold Bones
DS Aector McAvoy follows a report that an elderly woman has not been seen for days and finds her frozen in her bath, the start of a trail that reaches far into the past and uncovers a series of grisly murders.
Reviewed on 26 January 2019 by John Cleal
Scorched Earth
A former Mozambican guerrilla fighter enters England illegally bent on revenge – and DS Aector McAvoy is plunged into a case where present crimes lead him to an enemy from his past.
Reviewed on 03 February 2018 by John Cleal
The Zealot's Bones
A Canadian academic, seeking the bones of the apostle Simon the Zealot, hires a discredited and psychologically damaged Afghan war hero as his bodyguard. When a woman who briefly brought peace to the soldier’s troubled mind is murdered, he sets out to bring her vengeance.
Reviewed on 30 September 2017 by John Cleal
Cruel Mercy
DS Aector McAvoy is visiting New York to trace a traveller, his wife’s brother Valentine Teague. Two members of a rival clan, the Heldens, have been shot and unless Valentine is cleared a long-standing feud may be reawakened.
Reviewed on 18 February 2017 by Chris Roberts
Dead Pretty
One girl is missing, another dead. DS Aector McAvoy of the Humberside Serious and Organised Crime Unit can’t let the memory of either go.
Reviewed on 12 March 2016 by John Cleal
Taking Pity
Detective Superintendent Trish Pharaoh is hoping that a power struggle between criminals in north east England will give her the opportunity to take a few down, while DS Aector McAvoy tackles a very cold case.
Reviewed on 12 December 2015 by Chris Roberts
Original Skin
DS Aector McAvoy of the Humberside Serious and Organised Crime Unit finds a mobile phone which leads him to believe a young homosexual’s death, ruled a suicide, may be more. Already in the middle of a drugs war, he must now plunge into a world of sleazy and violent sex to uncover to uncover the truth.
Reviewed on 12 July 2014 by John Cleal
