David Mark

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2000
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Cordelia Hemlock Novel

1 - The Mausoleum (May-2019)
2 - The Whispering Dead (Dec-2022)

Detective Sergeant McAvoy

1 - The Dark Winter (Oct-2012)
2 - Original Skin (May-2013)
3 - Sorrow Bound (Jul-2014)
4 - Taking Pity (Jul-2015)
5 - Cruel Mercy (Jul-2016)
6 - Dead Pretty (Jan-2016)
7 - Scorched Earth (Jan-2018)
8 - Cold Bones (Oct-2019)
9 - Past Life (Dec-2021)
10 - Blind Justice (May-2022)
11 - Flesh and Blood (Jun-2023)
12 - The Burning Time (Dec-2023)
13 - Past Redemption (Dec-2024)

Sal Delaney

1 - When the Bough Breaks (Jun-2024)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • One of the Boys

    About the Book Baseball is life to Matthew Brady (Matty) Johnson. Unconditionally released to end a 19-year career as a pitcher that assures him a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame, he does not want to go gentle into that involuntary death-in-life...

  • The Dark Winter

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 1

    A series of suspicious deaths has rocked Hull, a port city in England as old and mysterious as its bordering sea. In the middle of a Christmas service, a teenage girl adopted from Sierra Leone is chopped down with a machete in front of the entire con...

  • Original Skin

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 2

    When “swinger” Simon Appleyard is found strung-up and naked in his apartment, the authorities are only too happy to chalk it up to suicide. After all, a new gang has taken over the local drug trade, and Detective Superintendant Trish Pharaoh’s ...

  • Sorrow Bound

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 3

    The sweltering summer heat is pushing Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy and the Serious and Organized Crime Unit to the brink as a sadistic new boss takes over the local drug trade and violent crime escalates. Then, McAvoy and DS Trish Pharaoh are dis...

  • Taking Pity

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 4

    It’s been three months since Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy returned home, or what was left of it after a horrific tragedy. All that remained was charred masonry, broken timbers, and dried blood -- a crude reminder of the home invasion and explos...

  • Dead Pretty

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 6

    One girl missing. One girl dead. A stunning new novel from one of Britain's most original crime writers, DEAD PRETTY finds Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy and Detective Superintendent Trish Pharaoh grappling with vigilantes, unsolved murders, and a ...

  • Cruel Mercy

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 5

    The latest installment in David Mark's internationally acclaimed Detective Sergeant McAvoy series, Cruel Mercy is McAvoy's first adventure on American soil. In the New York Police Department's 7th Precinct on the Lower East Side, Detective Ronny A...

  • Scorched Earth

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 7

    Detective McAvoy investigates a murder and a missing person case in this dark and compelling thriller, for fans of Stuart MacBride and Peter May. The police think Crystal Heathers isn't missing. The trainee detective assigned to the case isn't so...

  • The Mausoleum

    A Cordelia Hemlock Novel - 1

    When lightning strikes an ancient crypt, it exposes a devastating wartime secret in this compelling psychological thriller.

    1967. In a quiet village in the wild lands of the Scottish borders, disgraced academic Cordelia Hemlock is trying to p...



  • Cold Bones

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 8

  • A Rush of Blood

    Ten-year-old Hilda's search for her missing friend has terrible consequences in this gripping psychological thriller. When her friend Meda fails to turn up for dance class one evening, 10-year-old Hilda is convinced that something bad has happened to...

  • Borrowed Time

    Adam Nunn's search for his true identity has horrifying consequences in this compelling psychological thriller. A badly mutilated body has been discovered in a remote woodland pond on the Essex borders " a location known to be the haunt of the r...

  • The Burying Ground

    'Mark is a wonderfully descriptive writer' Peter James Cumbria, 1967. Grieving the loss of her son, Cordelia Hemlock is in the village graveyard when lightning strikes a tomb, giving her a glimpse of a fresh corpse that doesn’t belong among the cr...

  • Suspicious Minds

    When you're dreaming, it's dangerous to wake up . . . An addictive psychological thriller from David Mark, currently writing "at the top of his game" (Publishers Weekly) Liz Zahavi is desperate. Desperate for her controlling partner, Jay, to stay wit...

  • Into the Woods

    A powerful psychological thriller by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Guest House. For fans of Alex Michaelides and Ruth Ware.
    Thirty years ago, three girls followed a stranger into the woods. Only two returned.

    The survivin...

  • The Guest House

    How much would you pay to survive?
    Mum-of-three Ronni Ashcroft had just pieced her life back together after her husband left. On a remote spur of the Scottish Highlands, she kept her successful guest house going and even met a new man, Bishop.

  • Cages

    A dark past. A terrifying secret. A deadly game is about to begin . . . Washed-up author Rufus Orton needs money. It's the main reason he takes the gig teaching creative writing to inmates at HMP Holderness. That, and the flattery of prison officer ...

  • Darkness Falls

    Read the prequel to the Sunday Times bestseller Dark Winter, where DS Aector McAvoy's journey began...

    A city united in grief.

    A journalist ready to kill to keep his secrets.

    A copper capable of darker deeds than ...

  • Past Life

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 9

    DS Aector McAvoy must face the dark, disturbing secrets of his past if he's to keep his family safe. The clairvoyant is found with her tongue crudely carved out, a shard of blue crystal buried deep within her mangled ribcage. The crime scene plunge...



  • Anatomy of a Heretic

    A thrilling historical adventure that sees two assassins go head-to-head on the open seas, from Sunday Times bestselling author and Richard & Judy Book Club pick David Mark.

    London, 1628. Nicolaes de Pelgrom, assassin and devoted serva...

  • Blind Justice

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 10

    DS Aector McAvoy investigates his darkest, most brutal case yetThe call comes in before DS Aector McAvoy has had time for breakfast. The news is bad: A body. Found in the woods out at Brantingham. The reality is even worse.The young man's mutilated c...

  • The Whispering Dead

    A Cordelia Hemlock Novel - 2

    The past comes back to haunt MI6 secret agent Cordelia Hemlock in this spy thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author David Mark - "Top-level espionage fiction" (Booklist Starred Review)Cordelia Hemlock is teetering on the verge of joining MI6 whe...

  • Twist of Fate

    She says he's a victim. They say he's a killer.When an armed man massacres several people in central London, Claudine witnesses the whole thing. To her horror, one of the victims is her brother, Jethro.Riven by grief, Claudine retreats to the family ...

  • Flesh and Blood

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 11

    Killer secrets. Killer crimes - the unmissable new DS McAvoy thriller from the Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping author"McAvoy is a true original" Mick HerronDS Aector McAvoy is on a well-deserved family holiday when the news reaches hi...

  • The Burning Time

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 12

    A quiet town. A horrible incident. Things that don't add up. - The highly-anticipated latest instalment of the DS McAvoy series from the Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping author. "[A] dark, creepy, twisted mystery that will keep readers...

  • When the Bough Breaks

    Sal Delaney - 1

    Traffic cop Sal Delaney's past is catching up with her . . . Sunday Times best-selling author David Mark delivers a pulse-pounding new dark and gritty police procedural series set in the north of England, with a complex, intriguing female protagonist...

  • Past Redemption

    Detective Sergeant McAvoy - 13

    DI McAvoy must prevent a dangerous convict from being released on parole in the latest instalment of this acclaimed gritty police procedural series.Decland Parfitt, one of Northumberland's most dangerous criminals, is about to be released after fourt...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Mark has published 27 books.

The next book by David Mark, Past Redemption, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by David Mark, One of the Boys, was published in November 2000.

Yes. David Mark has 3 series.
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