Mark Timlin

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Nick Shaman

1 - A Good Year For The Roses (1988)
2 - Romeo's Tune (1990)
3 - Gun Street Girl (1990)
4 - Take the A-Train (1991)
5 - The Turnaround (1992)
6 - Zip Gun Boogie (1992)
7 - Hearts of Stone (1992)
8 - Falls of the Shadow (1993)
9 - Ashes by Now (1993)
10 - Pretend We're Dead (1994)
11 - Paint It Black (Sep-1995)
12 - Find My Way Home (1996)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • A Good Year For The Roses

    Nick Shaman - 1

    The First Nick Sharman ThrillerNick Sharman is nobody's favourite person. Ex-cop, ex-doper, invalided out of the Met after a stray bullet in the foot saved him from an investigation into the missing evidence from a drugs haul.The cops don't like him....

  • Gun Street Girl

    Nick Shaman - 3

    The Third Nick Sharman ThrillerIt starts when Nick Sharman's eye is caught by a woman in a fashionable West End store. She is young beautiful and classy. And she is shoplifting.In a moment of gallantry, Sharman saves her from the indignity of being c...

  • Romeo's Tune

    Nick Shaman - 2

    The Second Nick Sharman ThrillerWhen you're an ex-cop and an ex-doper scratching a living as a private investigator in the unromantic streets of south London, you take any work you can get. Even a dreary little debt collection job for some toe-rag of...

  • Take the A-Train

    Nick Shaman - 4

    The Fourth Nick Sharman ThrillerNick Sharman is in traction, hospitalised for four months, and desperate for a distraction. Then Fiona arrives - a topless model for the tabloids who bullies him into convalescing in her flat in Camberwell...After his ...

  • Hearts of Stone

    Nick Shaman - 7

    The Seventh Nick Sharman ThrillerLife as a private detective has proved too much for Nick Sharman, and when a chance run-in with a couple of young thugs secures him a job as a part-time barman, it looks as if he's found a promising new occupation.Unf...

  • The Turnaround

    Nick Shaman - 5

    The Fifth Nick Sharman ThrillerDisliked by Old Bill and villains alike, South London private eye Nick Sharman attracts trouble like the proverbial magnet.When businessman James Webb asks Sharman to find out who murdered his sister, her husband and tw...

  • Zip Gun Boogie

    Nick Shaman - 6

    The Sixth Nick Sharman ThrillerFor south London private detective Nick Sharman too many things have gone wrong lately. So when he's offered a job up west, with all the luxury of a posh Knightsbridge hotel chucked in, he doesn't refuse.Multi-million s...

  • Ashes by Now

    Nick Shaman - 9

    When a police officer's daughter was found raped and murdered, Sailor Grant, the local nonce, was sent down. Sharman always had his doubts, but that part of his life is over.Now, Sailor is out of prison and keeps phoning Sharman to help him get justi...

  • Falls of the Shadow

    Nick Shaman - 8

    In Sharman's eighth hardboiled adventure finds him back in the PI game, investigating a radio station Working in a bar has proved too dangerous for Nick Sharman, so he’s back in the private investigation game. His first job, looking for a lost High...



  • Pretend We're Dead

    Nick Shaman - 10

    Sharman's getting married, and down at the nick they're taking bets on how long it's going to last. His new wife, Dawn (the ex-stripper), isn't going to settle for little woman status - she's got her eye on those mean streets. And Sharman's going to ...

  • Paint It Black

    Nick Shaman - 11

    Nick Sharman - at last - is living a life of married bliss with his new partner (and ex-stripper) Dawn. The bad boy has settled down, and the booze and the drugs and the guns are but a happy memory - unlike his ex-wife Laura, now married to respectab...

  • Find My Way Home

    Nick Shaman - 12

    Harry Stonehouse had been a cop, a good one - and straight, unlike Nick Sharman. After taking early retirement he'd landed a job at a security firm. Now he's dead, and his wife wants Nick to find out who killed him and why.Nick's been taking a close ...

  • I Spied a Pale Horse

    As the new millennium approaches, it is the end of the world for John in more ways than one, for his wife and child are dead, and society lies in ruins as a plague devastates the world. When a pregnant young girl enters his life, he finds he has more...

  • Stay Another Day

    Could it be the end for Sharman?For seven years, ex-cop Nick Sharman has lived in 'exile' on a Caribbean island with no UK extradition treaty - his life of luxury funded by the proceeds of a bank robbery where he was the last man standing. Then a pho...

  • Guns of Brixton

    Spanning 40 years of love, life, and villainy, this epic novel is a major tour de force from an author at the peak of his powers, the Spillane of Brit Noir

     

    Once upon ...

  • Falls the Shadow

    Working in a bar has proved too dangerous for Nick Sharman, so he's back in the private investigation game.His first job, looking for a lost Highland terrier called Prince, shouldn't be too demanding; a quick visit to the owner's ex-husband and a men...

  • Sharman and Other Filth

    They had so much on Sharman that he couldn't move without their say-so. Stuff he'd done for himself, and things he'd done for them, too. His name was ruined on both sides of the fence. So they came up with one more job, the big one. When he found out...

  • Dead Flowers

    Nick Sharman's daughter Judith has returned to Scotland and nothing will tempt him back into the business again... unless it's Ray Miller. Miller, a Lottery rollover double-jackpot winner, wants to find the wife who left him. This should be a simple ...

  • A Street That Rhymed at 3am

    Sharman's Christmas with his daughter Judith starts with the worst of gifts: news that his ex-wife, Laura, her new husband and their baby son have been killed in a bomb explosion on a plane.Sharman and Judith seek what little consolation they can fro...



  • Reap the Whirlwind

    Poor old Nick Sharman may be dead and gone, but there’s still life left in the old dog yet â€" as Mark Timlin shows in this collection of stories about his memorable detective.Follow Sharman as he rocks through the underworld of 90s London and beyo...

  • Quick Before They Catch Us

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    Family trouble! Growing old quietly was never really an option for Nick Sharman. When he takes on a job for a prosperous Manchester businessman looking for his runaway teenage daughter, Meena, he should, perhaps, have known better. He finds himself i...

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Mark Timlin has published 21 books.

Mark Timlin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Reap the Whirlwind, was published in February 2021.

The first book by Mark Timlin, A Good Year For The Roses, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Mark Timlin has 1 series.
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