Ken McCoy

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2003
  • Latest Book:
    April 2018
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Full Series List in Order

A Sep Black Thriller

1 - Dead or Alive (Oct-2016)
2 - A Long Way Down (Nov-2017)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Catch a Falling Star

    The only life Dove McKenna has ever known has been one of the open road. Living with her parents and her brother in a show wagon, travelling from town to town, performing for folk happy enough to pay them for their entertainment, whilst dismissing th...

  • Mad Carew

    Sam Carew is a bricklayer with ambition. Working with his father as a bricklayer is not the life he envisioned when he left his cushy job as Detective Sergeant to seek out more than petty career criminals and delinquent youths. Unsworth is not the mo...

  • Jacky Boy

  • Tripper

    When Ron Crusher is forced at gunpoint onto the parapet of a 12-storey office block in the centre of Unsworth, he suspects that he's being used to distract the police while a criminal gang escapes and that his life will be spared. But minutes later h...

  • Hammerhead

    Kevin Kilpatrick has served nine years of a life sentence for two vicious murders he pleaded guilty to but didn't commit fearful of the threat to his family posed by the real killers. Excop turned builder Sam Carew helped to put him away, so when Kev...

  • Free as a Bird

    A new saga from a well-loved author - Beautiful Lola Lawless and young sister Evie are at the mercy of their violent father, policeman Ezra, until a terrible accident sees him gone from their lives for ever but at a terrible price. Ezras brother Seth...

  • Loser

    ‘There was a moan. Blood was bubbling from Alistair Waring’s mouth. It would be the humane thing to do to finish him off. But Shooey was suddenly squeamish. For God’s sake die, you stupid bastard! He went over and knelt beside the prostrate man...

  • Perseverance Street

    When Lily Robinson sees the telegraph boy cycling down Perseverance Street, she knows that he's coming to deliver bad news. Clutching the telegram in her trembling hands, at eight months pregnant and mother to three-year-old Michael, Lily learns that...

  • Almost a Hero

    Billie Challinor's mother dies during an air raid, but the child grows up confident that in her jazz musician father Chas she has the best dad in the world. Seeking refuge from the London Blitz by moving to Leeds, kindly landlady Liz Morris befriend...



  • The Results of Not Counting the Costs

    This is a gripping story about life choices and the failure to count the costs before making them. The book makes you feel as if you are the main characteruntil the very end. It was written believing someone will hear the message and change their thi...

  • The Results of Not Counting the Costs II

    The Bible says in Proverbs 18:21, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." The young boy we meet in this book, Timmy, is consumed with the words that his parents speak to him on a constant...

  • Nearly Always

    Lucy Bailey is not a girl to take no for an answer. When she asks her friend Billy Wellington to help her rescue a stray dog, she has no idea of the potential repercussions. A serious crime is committed while Billy is absent from the children's home ...

  • Dead or Alive

    A Sep Black Thriller - 1

    Introducing Detective Inspector Sep Black in the first of a brand-new series of hard-hitting police procedurals, set in Leeds. Two children have been abducted on their way home from school. After several weeks, they are still missing -- and no on...

  • Tell Me It's Not True

    1914. Mining engineer Tommy Birch goes off to war, leaving his new wife Rita behind in Pontefract. On the front line, Tommy runs afoul of a German mine and is reported as missing, presumed deceased by his fellow soldiers. But Tommy isn't dead. Found...

  • A Long Way Down

    A Sep Black Thriller - 2

    Detective Inspector Sep Black finds himself investigating two connected cold cases in the second of this exhilarating series of hard-hitting police procedurals. When a wealthy businessman suffers a fatal fall from his office window, the forensic e...

  • Elsewhere

    Eleven-year-old Billy Clegg and his big sister Peggy disappear from their home in Leeds after a suspicious fire in a local mill. The owner says the children caused it by lighting fireworks on Mischief Night. Their widowed mother Betty, badly injured ...

  • Annie's Legacy

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    When Annie Jackson's father doesn't return from war, her mother remarries. But while the outside world thinks Leonard Spode is a loving husband and father, behind closed doors he reveals his true colours - and Annie is forced to grow up very quickly....

  • Cleopatra Kelly

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Pretty and bright, Cleopatra Kelly dreams of life without the shadow of fear cast by her abusive step-father Horace Womack. Her beloved brother, Ant, flees to London, and a few weeks later, Cleo makes a daring escape and follows him there. However, C...

  • Cobblestone Heroes

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy



  • The Fabulous Fox Twins

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Roll up and see the Fabulous Fox Twins and join them on their comic escapades through the northern working-men's club circuit of the 1950s. Follow their meteoric rise and dramatic fall as they are chased by thugs, the police and dancing girls....

  • Hope Street

    • / Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Hope Street may be just an ordinary terraced street in Leeds, but it's the whole world to Maggie Fish. When her father returns home from the war the whole family looks forward to happier times, but Maggie's mother dies in childbirth leaving Johnnie F...

  • Two Rings for Rosie

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    When Rosie's lover is killed in a building accident, she knows the blame lies with his irresponsible boss Joe Brindle. Rosie finds she is carrying Sean's baby, but salvation comes in the form of war veteran George Metcalf....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ken McCoy has published 22 books.

Ken McCoy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Elsewhere, was published in April 2018.

The first book by Ken McCoy, Catch a Falling Star, was published in April 2003.

Yes. Ken McCoy has 1 series.
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