David Belbin

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1994
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Deadly Secrets

  • Avenging Angel

    Unwilling to rest after the police give up searching for the hit-and-run driver who killed her brother, Clare recalls the last moments before Angelo's death, and hopes to prove her suspicions before becoming a victim herself. Original....

  • Final Cut

    Accepting a film role that will become the culmination of her successful career, model Sarah Wood begins to suspect a sinister force behind accidents that result in an out-of-control fire scene, the death of a camera technician, and her own near-drow...

  • City of Crime

    You'll get to know ordinary people caught up in awful events. You'll meet murderers, sexual obsessives and police officers under pressure (...shame!). You'll consort with poisoners, prostitutes, loan sharks and petty thieves. And just when you least ...

  • Haunting Time

  • Shouting at the Stars

    Layla is a young singer who is just hitting the big time. With all of the excitement of her growing fame comes the eerie presence of an unknown heckler who begins to follow all her performances. Who is he, and why is he doing it? And, more importantl...

  • Love Lessons

    The classic best seller by the author of 'The Pretender' and the Bone & Cane novels remains as relevant as ever.'Affairs between teachers and pupils are incredibly common,' says the author. 'They're often treated as a joke. But this isn't a funny...

  • Crime Stories

  • The Pretender

    Mark Trace shows a remarkable talent for literary forgery. A gap year in Paris sees his skill exploited by a manuscript dealer. Mark fetches up in London, working at one of the UK's oldest literary magazines. That's when the trouble really starts. He...



  • Secret Gardens

    Aazim is fifteen. His family is about to be deported. When Immigration come for them, he decides to hide in a city allotment. But nowhere is safe for long. Aazim meets Nadimah. People are after her, too. Soon, the pair have to go on the run and they ...

  • What You Don't Know

    He tells you he loves you all the time. That he's going to get you out of the hostel, away from the drugs. He better not be lying to you. After Labour's landslide victory in 1997, Sarah has a new job and a new relationship, with an ambitious - but ma...

  • Student

    Allison wants to live life to the full. By going to university, she leaves behind her boyfriend, her mother and the guy who tried to rape her. She throws herself into drugs, sex and study. But student life gets very complicated and home keeps calling...

  • Missing Person

    The beginning of The Beat, Belbin's groundbreaking police procedural series, finds Clare Coppola about to go on patrol for the first time when her own home is broken into. Another fast paced mystery from the author of the best selling Bone and Cane s...

  • Festival

    The Glastonbury Festival. Three days in June. For many, it's the event of the summer - for three Glastonbury virgins and one fourteen-year-old veteran, it’s going to be a life-changing experience. Leila, exams over, just wants to have fun. But firs...

  • Asking For It

    A 13-year-old girl is raped, and Neil is assigned to the case. Shortly afterwards, a university student is attacked in a similar way, though this time the rapist wore a mask. Could the two crimes be connected? Or is it just coincidence? Neil must get...

  • The Beat

    The beginning of The Beat, Belbin's groundbreaking police procedural series, finds Clare Coppola about to go on patrol for the first time when her own home is broken into. Another fast paced mystery from the author of the best selling Bone and Cane s...

  • Black and Blue

    Racist cops, bent lawyers and broken romances confront Ben Shipman in this gripping, hard edged mystery from the author of 'Bone and Cane'. A violent attack on an alternative bookshop leads to an incendiary situation on the streets of Nottingham, whe...

  • Dead White Male

    When 19-year-old Scott Travis is found battered to death, the police are baffled. Probationary police officer Clare Coppola delves deeper into Scott's past and a murky history emerges. Scott was a blackmailer. His victims included a medical student, ...

  • Boy King

    Young Edward VI is crowned king upon the death of his father, Henry VIII - but he is only nine years old. How can he fight his way through the treacherous adult world to claim the sovereignty he is entitled to?

    This thoroughly researched n...



  • The Great Deception

    Sarah Bone, Labour MP for Nottingham West, has taken a temporary sabbatical from parliament to care for her sick mother. Sarah's ex, Nick Bone, is going straight having served 8 years for cannabis possession. While Sarah is contemplating a relationsh...

  • Provenance

    David Belbin's stories have appeared in many books and anthologies, including Heinemann's 'Best Short Stories of the Year'. Here, they are collected for the first time, together with four substantial new stories about contemporary life in the UK.I've...

  • The All Night Bookshop

  • Death in the Family

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Belbin has published 23 books.

David Belbin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Death in the Family, was published in April 2022.

The first book by David Belbin, Deadly Secrets, was published in May 1994.

No. David Belbin does not write books in series.
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