Adrian Magson

Author Information
Adrian Magson's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2007
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

Cruxys Solutions Investigation

1 - The Locker (Jan-2016)
2 - The Bid (Jan-2017)

Gavin & Palmer

1 - No Peace for the Wicked (Jan-2007)
2 - No Help for the Dying (Jan-2007)
3 - No Sleep for the Dead (Feb-2007)
4 - No Tears for the Lost (Dec-2007)
5 - No Kiss for the Devil (Sep-2008)

Harry Tate

1 - Red Station (Dec-2010)
2 - Tracers (Jun-2011)
3 - Deception (Mar-2012)
4 - Retribution (Jan-2013)
5 - Execution (Sep-2013)
6 - Terminal Black (Feb-2020)

An Inspector Lucas Rocco Mystery

1 - Death on the Marais (May-2011)
2 - Death on the Rive Nord (Sep-2011)
3 - Death on the Pont Noir (Nov-2012)
4 - Death at the Clos Du Lac (Nov-2013)

A Marc Portman Thriller

1 - The Watchman (May-2014)
2 - Close Quarters (Aug-2015)
3 - Hard Cover (Jul-2016)
4 - Dark Asset (May-2017)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • No Help for the Dying

    Gavin & Palmer - 2

  • No Peace for the Wicked

    Gavin & Palmer - 1

  • No Sleep for the Dead

    Gavin & Palmer - 3

  • No Tears for the Lost

    Gavin & Palmer - 4

    This intelligent crime novel, the fourth in Magson's series to feature Riley Gavin and Frank Palmer (after No Sleep for the Dead), should garner the British author a larger following in the U.S. . . The crisp writing and fresh characters make this st...

  • No Kiss for the Devil

    Gavin & Palmer - 5

    A young woman's body is found dumped in the Essex countryside. Ex-military policeman PI Frank Palmer is accustomed to death, but this is different. The body is his former girlfriend. He knows only one way to deal with this disturbing and brutal murde...

  • Red Station

    Harry Tate - 1

    First in the brand-new Harry Tate thriller series - Having been made the scapegoat for a botched drugs intercept operation, MI5 officer Harry Tate is dispatched to ‘Red Station’, a remote outpost in the Balkans, ostensibly to avoid press scrutiny...

  • The Lost Patrol

    1988 - France.Robbie Greene, 16, is on an enforced holiday in rural France, staying next to a large World War 1 military cemetery. Bored and with nothing to do, all he wants to do is go back home.Robbie doesn't believe in ghosts - especially ghosts o...

  • Death on the Marais

    An Inspector Lucas Rocco Mystery - 1

    She was going to die. She could feel it, her life ebbing away as surely as fine sand through fingers. France, 1963. It's a time of great change, not least for Inspector Lucas Rocco. As part of a nationwide 'initiative' to broaden police operations...

  • Tracers

    Harry Tate - 2

    In western Baghdad, a suicide bomber blows up a fortified house, killing everyone inside. In Norfolk, England, a runaway Libyan banker is assassinated. Different events, half a world apart--but closely linked. Former M15 agent Harry Tate has been hir...



  • Death on the Rive Nord

    An Inspector Lucas Rocco Mystery - 2

    Picardie, 1963. A truck drops a group of illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night near Poissons-les-Marais, desperate travellers in a pipeline, searching for a better life. Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death...

  • Deception

    Harry Tate - 3

    Former MI5 officer Harry Tate's skill at tracking down runaways is second to none -- and the Security Services need his help. When MI6 ask him to trace Vanessa Tan, a lieutenant with the Royal Logistics Corps who failed to report for her return fli...

  • Death on the Pont Noir

    An Inspector Lucas Rocco Mystery - 3

    FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION'A classic crime star in the making' Daily Mail France, 1963. A farmer reports a truck ramming into a car near Amiens, Picardie, followed by gunfire.A group of Englishmen are brought in after a bar fight.A homeless man's body...

  • Retribution

    Harry Tate - 4

    Ex-MI5 Harry Tate is back. “Harry. Plse make Grosvenor Square tomorrow 18.30. Urgent. Remember Mirovica.” An atrocity that allegedly took place under Harry’s watch in Kosovo in 1999 returns to haunt him when he receives a summons from an o...

  • Execution

    Harry Tate - 5

    When a Russian hit team catches up with Roman Tobinskiy, political opponent of Moscow and former FSB colleague of Alexander Litvinenko (murdered by polonium poisoning in 2006), it's an easy kill; he's lying helpless in a hospital bed. They realise to...

  • Death at the Clos Du Lac

    An Inspector Lucas Rocco Mystery - 4

    FULLY REVISED NEW EDITIONTerrible truths lie hidden, deep beneath the surface...France, 1964. At the exclusive Clos du Lac sanitarium, a man is discovered standing in the therapy pool. Someone has chained him to the bottom, and left him there to die ...

  • The Watchman

    A Marc Portman Thriller - 1

    Introducing professional watcher and deep cover specialist Marc Portman in the first of this stunning new series He's a professional shadow. A watcher who provides protection in potentially hostile situations. He works in the background, stays off...

  • Close Quarters

    A Marc Portman Thriller - 2

    The return of The Watchman - deep cover specialist Marc Portman Close protection specialist Marc Portman is used to finding himself in hostile situations. But none can be more unpredictable than troubled Ukraine, teetering on the brink of civil w...

  • The Locker

    Cruxys Solutions Investigation - 1

    Hello, Nancy. You’re at your usual locker at Fitness Plus. The time is 09:15. Your cell phone is dead, your home phone won’t answer and your daughter, Beth, is home with the nanny. It will take you 18 minutes to get home. If you drive fast. S...

  • Hard Cover

    A Marc Portman Thriller - 3

    The third tense and compelling thriller to feature The Watchman - deep cover specialist Marc Portman Marc Portman, codename Watchman, is in Russia providing covert back-up to wealthy Russian businessman Leonid Tzorekov. A former KGB officer sympat...



  • The Bid

    Cruxys Solutions Investigation - 2

    The prisoner who wakes up in a box miles from anywhere. The jailer who doesn’t question his job. The shipment of drones stolen from a cargo hub. The terrorists planning a devastating attack on US soil. When drone expert James Chadwick disappe...

  • Dark Asset

    A Marc Portman Thriller - 4

    Deep cover specialist Marc Portman uncovers a secret deal that could make billions in oil revenue … or topple two governments. Portman’s latest assignment is providing back-up for a French intelligence agent sent to recover a hard drive from ...

  • Rocco and the Nightingale

    A bounty on his head, and nowhere to run...When a minor Paris criminal is found stabbed in the neck on a country lane in Picardie it looks like another case for Inspector Lucas Rocco. But instead he is called off to watch over a Gabonese government m...

  • Smart Moves

    International troubleshooter Jake Foreman loses his job, house and wife all in one day. And when an impulsive move lands him in even deeper water - the kind that could lose him his life - he decides it's time to make some smart decisions.The trouble ...

  • Rocco and the Price of Lies

    A government conspiracy that goes to the very top...Murder by suicide? Three senior government officials " a judge, a politician, and an ex-police chief " are all dead by their own hands.Inspector Lucas Rocco finds himself once more working for t...

  • Rocco and the Echoes of War

    FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION OF DEATH ON THE MARAISPraise for Adrian Magson:"… a classic crime star in the making." Daily Mail"A gripping police procedural." Eurocrime France, 1963.It's a time of great change in France, not least for Inspector Lu...

  • Rocco and the Stranger

    FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION OF DEATH ON THE RIVE NORDPraise for Adrian Magson:"… a classic crime star in the making." Daily Mail"A gripping police procedural." Eurocrime Picardie, 1963.A truck drops a group of illegal workers by a deserted stret...

  • Rocco and the Black Bridge

    FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION OF DEATH ON THE PONT NOIRPraise for Adrian Magson:"… a classic crime star in the making." Daily Mail"A gripping police procedural." Eurocrime France, 1963.A farmer reports a truck ramming into a car near Amiens, Picar...

  • Rocco and the Lake of Secrets

    FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION OF DEATH AT THE CLOS DU LACPraise for Adrian Magson:"… a classic crime star in the making." Daily Mail"A gripping police procedural." Eurocrime France, 1964.The man was standing on the bottom of the therapy pool in th...

  • Terminal Black

    Harry Tate - 6

    Former MI5 agent Harry Tate is drawn back into the field when an old friend goes missing -- and discovers the stakes could not be higher. Harry Tate has one rule: you don’t abandon your friends. When he learns that former colleague Rik Ferris ha...



  • Rocco and the Snow Angel

    A former village priest shot dead execution-style in a snow-covered field re-opens memories of a wartime scandal around the villages of Poissons-les-Marais and Fouillmont, when young infatuation led to a spate of coldly efficient assassinations. But ...

  • A Hostile State

    A routine assignment for deep cover specialist Marc Portman becomes something darker and deeper in this action-packed spy thriller. Deep cover specialist Marc Portman is in Lebanon on a last-minute assignment. A straightforward collect-and-go jo...

  • The Drone

    Previously published as The BidThe prisoner who wakes up in a box miles from anywhere.The jailer who doesn’t question his job.The shipment of drones stolen from a cargo hub.The terrorists planning a devastating attack on US soil.When drone expert J...

  • Death at the Old Asylum

    Who said nothing ever happens in the French countryside?Picardie, 1964. On a deserted country road, three Moroccan nationals are shot dead with precision, a cold-blooded execution, one bullet each. To Inspector Lucas Rocco, it's a mystery. Why them a...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Adrian Magson has published 33 books.

Adrian Magson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death at the Old Asylum, was published in October 2021.

The first book by Adrian Magson, No Help for the Dying, was published in January 2007.

Yes. Adrian Magson has 5 series.
Author Series
Top Authors in Crime
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe