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Martyn Waites
Full Series List in Order
A Joe Donovan Thriller
1 - The Mercy Seat (Apr-2006)2 - Bone Machine (Apr-2007)
4 - White Riot (Mar-2009)
5 - Speak No Evil (Jun-2010)
Steven Larkin
1 - Candleland (Aug-2000)2 - Mary's Prayer (Mar-2002)
3 - Little Triggers (Aug-2007)
Tom Killgannon
1 - The Old Religion (Feb-2020)2 - The Sinner (Feb-2020)
Book List in Order: 14 titles
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Candleland
- Aug-2000
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When a friend’s HIV-positive sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing, investigative reporter Stephen Larkin is enlisted to help find her. Following a trail of warring drug dealers, child prostitution and born-again Christian gangsters, it soon becom...
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Mary's Prayer
- Mar-2002
- / Suspense
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"London's dark heart has seldom been exposed with such surgical precision. Brutal, mesmerizing stuff."-Ian Rankin "Waites stands out in the crowded field of young British noir writers . . . with his bruised characters, raw-edged dialogue, and extrao...
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Born Under Punches
- Mar-2004
- / General Fiction
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Switching continuously between 1984 and the present day, Martyn Waites' gripping crime thriller follows the intertwined lives of a small group of characters, all linked in various ways to the miners' strike: Tony Woodhouse, a professional footballer ...
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The Mercy Seat
- Apr-2006
- / Thriller
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A research scientist has gone missing. An ace newspaper reporter has disappeared and so has a minidisk, along with its incriminating evidence. And a teenage hustler is on the run. In his pursuer, the Hammer, a skin-headed professional killer, the pri...
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Bone Machine
- Apr-2007
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The body of a young woman is discovered in an abandoned burial ground. Her body has been ritualistically mutilated, her eyes and mouth crudely sewn shut. The victim’s boyfriend, Michael Nell, seems to be the obvious suspect. However, several things...
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Little Triggers
- Aug-2007
- / Suspense
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"An ambitious, tautly plotted thriller that offers a stark antidote to P.D. James' cozy world of middle-class murder. A huge talent."-Time Out
"Martyn Waites' lean, exhilarating prose is from the heart and from the guts, and that's exactly...
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White Riot
- Mar-2009
- / Thriller
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The third novel in the acclaimed Joe Donovan series by “Britain’s answer to Michael Connelly” (Ken Bruen).
When the savagely beaten body of a Muslim student is discovered in a rundown area of Newcastle, blame falls on the far right Natio... -
Speak No Evil
- Jun-2010
- / Thriller
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In the fourth novel of this acclaimed crime series, Joe Donovan must help a woman determine if her recent visions are related to the death of a young boy. Anne Marie is back in the hometown she hasn't seen for forty years, trying to live a normal ...
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The White Room
- Jan-2012
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A veteran returns from war to find a city torn apart by poverty and crime A year after the end of World War II, Jack Smeaton has returned to Newcastle, a nineteen-year-old with bone-white hair and a memory that cannot be cleansed. After the eye-op...
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The Woman in Black
- Jan-2015
- / Horror
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The chilling sequel to the international bestselling novel "The Woman in Black" It’s Autumn of 1940, and German bombs are destroying the cities of Britain as WWII takes its toll on Europe. In London, children are being removed from their famili...
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The Sinner
- Feb-2020
- / Thriller
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Tom Killgannon, ex–undercover police officer and now in witness protection, is recalled to active service by a local police task force, headed by DS Sheridan. His mission is to befriend notorious child killer Noel Cunningham and find out where...
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The Old Religion
- Feb-2020
- / Mystery
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The Cornish village of St. Petroc is the sort of place where people come to hide. Tom Killgannon is one such person. An ex-undercover cop, Tom is in the Witness Protection Program hiding from some very violent people, and St. Petroc offers him a chan...
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The Gravedigger's Song
- Sep-2022
- / Mystery
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When his song is over, so are youUnder a starless winter night in rural Cornwall, four killers dressed in bizarre folkloric garb brutally invade the home of the wealthy West family. They destroy the posh house and kill the terrified family.All but on...
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The Tom Killgannon Mysteries
- Apr-2024
- / Thriller
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Welcome to the dark heart of Cornwall.Book 1: The Old ReligionThe Cornish village of St. Petroc is the sort of place where people come to hide. Tom Killgannon is one such person. But when a seventeen-year-old runaway named Lila breaks into Tom...