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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2011
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A DCI Layla Khan Investigation

1 - In the Shadow of the Tower (Jul-2016)

A DCI Sara Hoyland Mystery

1 - Fall From Grace (Dec-2011)
2 - Beautiful Child (Mar-2012)
3 - Outside the Rain (Sep-2013)

Detective Superintendent Jeff Barton

1 - Sorceror (Nov-2013)
2 - Fireflies (Jun-2014)
3 - Storms (Oct-2014)
4 - No Questions Asked (Jan-2015)
5 - Straight Back (May-2015)
6 - Thrown Down (Aug-2015)
7 - No Spoken Word (Jul-2016)
8 - Landslide (Feb-2017)
9 - When I See You Again (Mar-2018)
10 - Doing the Best I Can (May-2018)
11 - Violet and Blue (Nov-2018)

A Stephanie Marshall Mystery

1 - Fiona Thompson House (Dec-2013)
2 - What Happened to Liam? (May-2015)
3 - Could Max Burley Be a Killer? (May-2015)

Book List in Order: 28 titles



  • Paul Foster is a social worker trying to make a difference. But what links him to an aristocratic Nazi sympathiser accused of harbouring a war criminal? And what has happened to his soldier boyfriend Jake over in Afghanistan?In this, the first DCI Sa...



  • A nice girl from the ‘right’ sort of church going family shouldn’t get pregnant in 1950s England. But when they do it is seen as good form to leave their child in the care of the catholic church who collude with the government and send him off ...



  • When a bomb rips through Manchester's Piccadilly railway station during rush hour, DCI Sara Hoyland narrowly escapes with her life but soon comes to realise that all is not as it would first appear.The city is plunged into crisis and the usual scapeg...



  • The remains of three bodies, one of them an infant, one of them a child, are found in a house close to Manchester University that's being renovated. The house used to be a care home for teenage boys and Detective Superintendent Jeff Barton and his te...



  • Highly esteemed television journalist Danny Holdsworth returns to his home town and begins a search for answers to the still unsolved murder of his childhood best friend Nigel Slater thirty years ago. Coming back Danny runs into his old flame, Caroli...



  • Eleven stories about women. They love, they hate, they nurture, they control beyond all reason, they kill, they're good, they're bad, they're angels and they're the devil. See if you can spot anyone you know in any of them....



  • In the darkest days of the Northern Ireland troubles members of the security services almost thought it was their duty to act beyond the law. Vulnerable individuals were used. Identities changed so that valuable information could be obtained. But wha...



  • Sydney-based private investigator Stephanie Marshall didn't have any idea where it would lead her when potential client Patricia Palmer came into her office that morning. She seemed like such a genuine, concerned woman who was desperate to find out w...



  • Detective Superintendent Jeff Barton is back and investigating a series of brutal murders of men who are out on stag nights in the centre of Manchester. But is this the work of a psychopath or, as Jeff comes to expect, an even more chilling story of ...






  • Members of a notorious gang of teenage boys on an estate in east Manchester are being murdered in a particularly gruesome manner. Is it some kind of vendetta? The list of potential suspects would be long if it was but Detective Superintendent Jeff Ba...



  • No Questions Asked picks up where 'Storms' left off in the back garden of Jeff Barton's house where he's hosting a barbecue for neighbours, family and friends. But the party is abruptly ended when the body of an eleven year-old child, the son of one ...



  • Max Burley comes to Stephanie desperate for help. He's about to go on trial for the murder of his boss who also happens to have been his secret lover. Stephanie takes on the case but doesn't realise the danger she's putting herself in or the risk she...



  • Jeff Barton returns from his holiday to see his late wife's relatives in China in a relaxed and refreshed mood but that's soon put to the test. He's used to being under pressure to find answers but this is different. He begins to feel there's a force...



  • Just why did Liam Jenkins disappear? Why did he abandon his car late one Friday night on one of Sydney's northern beaches? Who was the mysterious woman he was seeing in the weeks before he disappeared who he said was making him so happy and yet he ha...



  • A former IRA terrorist is murdered in the Manchester flat he's lived in since he was released from prison. The next day the son of one of his victims is also murdered and it looks like he was expecting his killer. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ...



  • 'Lethal. Deadly. Dangerous. Fear and Loathing. Murder. This is what the streets of Britain's premier holiday resort mean to Layla Khan. On the other side of where cheap booze, cheap clothes, slot machines and fast food reign supreme, Layla, who's rec...



  • Why would a woman who runs a corner shop in South Manchester be shot dead in cold blood in apparently contract killing? Who could she have offended so much that they wanted her out of the way permanently? And what's happened to her partner? They're s...



  • AUTHOR'S NOTE - All of these short stories have been published before in my previous collections.But for the first time they're all now together in one collection.These stories covering love and loss, happiness and misery, all have a final macabre tw...



  • DSI Barton and his team investigate a particularly nasty crime when the body of a teenage girl is found in the boot of a car. She's had her legs cut off. She's been subjected to one of the most barbaric practices done to young girls. But who is she? ...






  • DESCRIPTIONWelcome to Broken Ridge, a town where everybody is carrying some kind of secret.This story of an unsolved murder in rural New South Wales is a perfect piece of outback noir that will keep you guessing and then drop your jaw with a truly sh...



  • AUTHOR'S NOTE - This is the same book as the one published before with the same title but with a different cover.THE PROVOCATIONIn the desperate world of modern slavery a Pakistani refugee is found murdered in the kitchen of a Salford pub.THE RETALIA...



  • AUTHOR'S NOTE - This is the same book as the one before with the same title but with a different cover.The body of a young woman is found who'd been murdered using electrocution. Then the body of another young woman is found who'd been murdered in th...



  • Children convicted of killing other children grow up in incarceration and as adults they’re given a fresh identity and a new start in a different part of the country from where they committed their heinous crimes.But someone is leaking that informa...



  • HE REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS GETTING INTOPeter Cross decides to escape family traumas following the death of his father and flies out to Australia to get right away and try and find some peace.But in the affluent coastal community of Beachcliff,...



  • In this novella we find out what a tangled web we weave when men and women who are supposed to be married to each other allow themselves to be devoured by the taste of forbidden fruit.Passion, deceit, lies, denial, pleasure. It's all here in the live...



  • MICK just wants to meet the right woman and be happy. DOMINIC has always said that he doesn't want children because of the darkness that seems to be passed through the male members of his family. RICHARD just wants to be a father to his beloved daugh...



  • When the father of British writer Peter Cross dies, a devastating family secret is revealed that puts Peter at odds with his two brothers. He's also executor of his father's Will and the stress of everything makes him want to get right away.He decide...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Menon has published 28 books.

David Menon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Third Wife, was published in August 2023.

The first book by David Menon, Fall From Grace, was published in December 2011.

Yes. David Menon has 4 series.