David Williams

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  • Bibliography:
    67 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1977
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Mark Treasure Mystery

1 - Unholy Writ (Apr-1984)
2 - Treasure by Degrees (May-1984)
3 - Treasure Up in Smoke (1978)
4 - Murder for Treasure ()
5 - Copper, Gold and Treasure (May-1982)
6 - Treasure Preserved (Jul-1983)
7 - Advertise for Treasure (Jun-1984)
8 - Wedding Treasure (Apr-1985)
9 - Murder in Advent (Mar-1986)
10 - Treasure in Roubles (Aug-1987)
11 - Divided Treasure (Mar-1988)
12 - Treasure in Oxford (Jan-1989)
13 - Holy Treasure! (Aug-1989)
14 - Prescription for Murder (Feb-1991)
15 - Treasure by Post (Feb-1992)
16 - Planning on Murder ()
17 - Banking on Murder ()

Merlin Parry & Gomer Lloyd

1 - Last Seen Breathing (Oct-1994)
2 - Death of a Prodigal (Jun-1996)
3 - Dead in the Market (Jun-1998)
4 - A Terminal Case (Jan-1999)
5 - Practise to Deceive (Oct-2003)

Book List in Order: 67 titles

  • The Burning Wood

  • Treasure Up in Smoke

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 3

  • The River Horsemen

  • Copper, Gold and Treasure

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 5

    Roderick Copper (67), retired Major, and Benny Gold (70), London cabbie, apply on the same morning for residential places with the Rudyard Trust for Retired Officers and Gentlemen. But its eccentric and drunken Director tells them the Trust is techni...

  • Treasure Preserved

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 6

  • Unholy Writ

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 1

    When Arthur Moonlight, a financially troubled aristocrat, has second thoughts about selling the family mansion to the fanatical 'Forward Britain' movement he calls in his friend, London financier Mark Treasure, to stop the sale. But the situation is ...

  • Treasure by Degrees

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 2

    Merchant banker and part-time detective Mark Treasure begins to sort through clues after the widow of the founder of the Funny Farms Foundation is discovered slaughtered on a university campus during a dedication ceremony...

  • Advertise for Treasure

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 7

    Banker-sleuth Mark Treasure becomes embroiled in the competitive and cutthroat world of advertising when he investigates the death of Roger Rorch, head of a financially troubled London ad agency, in a fall from his balcony...

  • Eye of the Father



  • Wedding Treasure

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 8

  • Murder in Advent

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 9

  • Treasure in Roubles

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 10

    PASSPORT TO MURDER Leningrad's glorious Hermitage Museum contains thousands of masterpieces... minus one just stolen by a wily thief. The KGB suspects a capitalist plot--especially when a very upper crust and rather eccentric British tour group arri...

  • Divided Treasure

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 11

    While investigating complaints of pension fraud reported by workers at a candy factory in North Wales, British banker and amateur sleuth Mark Treasure stumbles onto two corpses and a hidden web of greed and infidelity...

  • Treasure in Oxford

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 12

    Merchant banker Mark Treasure, arriving at the annual governor's meeting of the Moneybuckle Architectural Endowment only to be confronted by murder, undertakes his own investigations, despite clues that implicate one of his fellow governors...

  • Holy Treasure!

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 13

    A vicar's wife begins a campaign to save her husband's failing church from a shady group of land speculators and is promptly killed in a seeming accident, spurring financier and amateur sleuth Mark Treasure to action...

  • Prescription for Murder

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 14

  • Treasure by Post

    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 15

    Mark Treasure has no idea that accompanying his actress wife on location to a picturesque West Country town could possibly lead to murder . . . The merchant banker is asked by Chiversley's Area Bishop to become involved in the financial affairs of th...

  • Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon

    An account of turn-of-the-century America--as retold by Essie Willams's grandson--recalls Essie's journey across the Midwest in a covered wagon, describing the hardships, tragedies, and joys of pioneer life...

  • Last Seen Breathing

    Merlin Parry & Gomer Lloyd - 1



  • Math Master

  • Death of a Prodigal

    Merlin Parry & Gomer Lloyd - 2

  • Second Best Man

    in 3rd Culprit (Worldwide)

    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • Sweet Fruition

    in Malice Domestic 6

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Dead in the Market

    Merlin Parry & Gomer Lloyd - 3

    When Chief Inspector Merlin Parry investigates the murder of a blackmail victim, no witnesses come forward, despite the fact that the killing took place in the Central Market in front of thousands of shoppers...

  • A Terminal Case

    Merlin Parry & Gomer Lloyd - 4

    The parishioners of Bryntaf, a leafy Cardiff suburb, are far from being shocked when the vicar of St. Samson's announces he is divorcing his wife. Some are surprised, though, when he adds that he plans to remarry - an attractive, young widow - and st...

  • Suicide Intended

    The fifth in David Williams's popular series featuring Chief Inspector Merlin Parry: a teasing whodunit, with all Williams's hallmarks -- stylish writing, wit and a totally unexpected solution. Freddy Gibbon was a blackmailer, drug peddler, thief and...

  • Christian Approaches to Poverty

    It is a sad fact that the majority of the world's people still lives in poverty, with all the problems of hunger and disease that goes with it. What should Christians do about this? Various things have been tried, all with their own advantages and p...

  • New Century Trinity

    What has the ancient doctrine of the Trinity to do with the twentyfirst century? Is it just a fossil from the past, fit only for a museum? Does it have anything to say to modern concerns? There is currently a revival of interest in the doctrine, but ...

  • Double Edged Sword

    Double Edge Sword is a dramatic, fictional adventure of African American Literary Folklore. It realistically depicts situations of unpredictable circumstances that develop during the life of Jason Philips, a young man who suddenly finds his secure w...



  • Criminal Intentions

    David William's whodunits have a huge and devoted following. His favourite gold-digging spouses get delicious outings, as do the perpetrators of two fascinating insurance scams. The tricking, on the Riviera, of an innocent Wimbledon spinster, the ass...

  • Practise to Deceive

    Merlin Parry & Gomer Lloyd - 5

    The cold-blooded murder of Kevin Rees, Auxiliary Nurse at the private Howell Clinic for stroke victims, is greeted with apparent sorrow by all who knew him - well, nearly all. ‘A born nurse’ is the summation of his professional qualities by colle...

  • Magic Railway

    A fantasy novel. for young and old in which the lives of the Selby children are threatened with disruption as their parents leave them in the care of the fearsome Gerda in a mansion in Notting Hill. The houses previous owner mysteriously vanished and...

  • Lost On the Road to Jericho

    Samantha Hannum is the kind of experienced, calm-under-fire paramedic you'd want if you were badly injured, but the crises and threats she faces each day have begun to erode her compassion and will. She's lost all sense of purpose, a dilemma that is ...

  • Indian Bingo

    Darkly comic and emotionally ripe, this book weaves the parallel narratives of an extended family set in the rustic Ozark Mountains. From firm superstition to mid-life crises, these memorable stories--with their long journeys and deep longings--unfol...

  • 2075

  • About Mid Wales

  • The Legend Of Alligator Jackson

  • Highest Seat Does Not Hold Two

    After thousands of years of conflict, the human race had finally learned to live in harmony. Then aliens came. Though conquered by an intergalactic federation, in face of the adversity, the human race chose not to return to their prejudices; instead,...

  • Evil Against Divine

    Rusty Shade should have been careful of what he wished for. He always dreamed of being a millionaire but when he finally hit the lottery, he received way more than the money he won. His lottery winnings bought more than just valuable possessions, the...



  • Poison Farm

  • 11

    Who is Hassan and what is behind his mysterious Valentine message to Amina? Who is the young beauty chased across a lorry park in the early hours? These are the questions local phone-in host Marc Niven struggles with as he is drawn deeper into the ci...

  • Desert England

    A terrifying tidal wave was sweeping across Europe, leaving widespread devastation in its wake. But this was no natural phenomenon; this was a wholly manmade weapon of terror, dubbed by the foreign media as ‘the English disease’: football hooliga...

  • Scotty Chase

    Three 11 year old kids - Scotty, Macon and Tamika arrive at the Super Space Station - the station that Scottys dad designed and is building to help save all of humanity. But not everyone wants this station to succeed, and there are competing corporat...

  • The Sumarny River Bridge

  • Hemsworth

  • Dirty Lil Thawts

  • The Little School-Mothers

    Excerpt: “Robina Starling will arrive at the school this evening,” said Mrs Burton. “She is twelve years old, and has never been at school before. I want you girls of the third form to take her under your charge. Frederica and Pa...

  • The Trickster Brain

    The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Nature by David Williams looks at literature from an evolutionary, biological, and neurological perspective. He uses the Trickster character as he/she appears across cultures to demonstrate how storie...

  • The English Fall



  • Wickersnides

    Matt's summer was coming to an end. It was time to go shop for school supplies at the vast store that sold everything: Wickersnides. Wickersnides, where everything is cheap, and you can get everything you need, not to mention a million things you don...

  • As Close as You Are to Me

    Alex Taylor is an unhappy and troubled man as he sits in the city park, but when he sees his teenage daughter Ruth walk by he is in turmoil. Ruth has been dead for more than a year. Paralysed by shock he loses the opportunity to pursue her, and she d...

  • A Soldier's Love

    Bill had been captured and sustained life threatening injuries. Rescued and flown back to a hospital in England, Bill spent weeks recovering from his physical injuries. The army had concerns about his mental state of health and could not let him resu...

  • The Lempire's Lament

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    'It's not easy being immortal when you are born suicidal...'  Such is the plight of the long suffering Lempire. Part Lemming part Vampire, this rare and exotic creature is consigned to a fate worse than death- Failure!  And He's right chees...

  • Massimo

    Set in the second century AD, the young Massimo is forced to make a brave decision, join the Roman army or face a lynch mob for his crimes. Set against real historical events and characters the fictional Massimo interacts with Emperors and historical...

  • Smurf in Wanderland

  • When the English Fall

    A riveting and unexpected novel that questions whether a peaceful and non- violent community can survive when civilization falls apart.Again, all are asleep, but I am not. I need sleep, but though I read and I pray, I feel too awake. My mind paces th...

  • Seeds of Temptation

    This is a humorous young-adult novel about a summertime experience that leads to the trials, tribulations, and temptations while growing up.A God-fearing, cantankerous family matriarch is asked to undergo a daunting summer task. Her responsibilities ...

  • When Josh Gets Bored

  • The Miners' Strike Mystery

    Ken Frane returns to the Valleys of his childhood. Antediluvian anti-hero reopens a cold case from the Miners' Strike, when he was a beat copper in Cardiff, called back to police the industrial dispute. Ken Frane 'Last of the Cardiff Docks' detective...

  • Ken Frane Short Stories

    Five Short Stories to excite and enthrall. Here are examples of the anti-detective novel genre. Ken Frane is not a very successful gumshoe but he is tenacious. Former police detective turned private investigator he embarks on a number of strange and ...

  • Let's Go Home, Son

    A mother, a father and a son face illness and the new restrictions of a declared pandemic in the context of their native Croatia. The dream of returning as a family to the sun-soaked terrace of their home in Dalmatia is what inspires them to face - a...

  • Martha and the Chocolate Cake

    Martha the mouse and her friends Owl, Ted, Fliss, Squirrel, Rabbit, and Fox decide to have a fun day out in Crickledown Wood. They meet at the duck pond on a sunny morning, stopping to chat with the Beavers by the stream on their way. But while cross...

  • Myrewood

    Based on the symphonic death metal EP, also created by David Williams, in his music project called Chronicler of Ardul, this short story expands on the tale of the Myrewood. The hubris of one kingdom and their failure to deal with criminals has set t...

  • Banking on Murder

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    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 17

    Sir Ray Bims is about to be charged as the principal in a Caribbean bank that's laundering international drug money. Lord Grenwood, octogenarian chairman of Grenwood, Phipps, the London merchant bankers, is appalled. Three years ago he sold Bims the ...

  • G Constant

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  • Murder for Treasure

    • / Espionage
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    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 4

    Could the take-over of Rigley's Patent Footbalm by the giant American Hutstacker Chemical Corporation really be scuppered by Mrs Ogmore-Davies's parrot finding a body in Panty Harbour?It looked like it, but banker sleuth Mark Treasure took a differen...

  • Planning on Murder

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    A Mark Treasure Mystery - 16

    The plan to save the Elizabethan stately home Vormer House by selling part of its deer park for a golf and hotel complex has a mixed reception from local politicians, and others. Merchant banker Mark Treasure is financial advisor to the property grou...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Williams has published 67 books.

David Williams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Martha and the Chocolate Cake, was published in May 2024.

The first book by David Williams, The Burning Wood, was published in February 1977.

Yes. David Williams has 2 series.
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