Parker Bilal

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2012
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Makana Mystery

1 - The Golden Scales (Feb-2012)
2 - Dogstar Rising (Feb-2013)
3 - The Ghost Runner (Feb-2014)
4 - The Burning Gates (Feb-2015)
5 - City of Jackals (Jun-2016)

Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • The Golden Scales

    A Makana Mystery - 1

    The ancient city of Cairo is a feverish tangle of the old and the new, of the superrich and the desperately poor, with inequality and corruption everywhere. It's a place where grudges and long-buried secrets can fester, and where people can disappear...

  • Dogstar Rising

    A Makana Mystery - 2

    Summer, 2001. The mutilated bodies of young boys are turning up in the backstreets of Cairo, and the finger of suspicion is pointing at the city's Coptic community. As Makana, a private investigator who fled his native Sudan a decade ago, watches the...

  • The Ghost Runner

    A Makana Mystery - 3

    It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo’s streets. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories ...

  • The Burning Gates

    A Makana Mystery - 4

    In Cairo, private investigator Makana is called into the office of his new client, a powerful art dealer known as Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a famous painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can t...

  • City of Jackals

    A Makana Mystery - 5

    Mourad Hafiz appears to have dropped out of university and disappeared. Engaged by his family to try and find him, Makana comes to believe that the Hafiz boy became involved in some kind of political activity just prior to his disappearance. But befo...

  • Dark Water

    The sixth thriller in the Makana series called "excellent" by Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times Book Review.

    When an Englishman, Marcus Winslow, appears at Private Investigator Makana's door one April morning, Makana does no...

  • The Drowning Light

    When an Englishman, Marcus Winslow, appears at Private Investigator Makana's door one April morning, Makana does not realize that he will soon risk losing everything he has built for himself in Cairo. Winslow represents the British Secret Intelligenc...

  • The Divinities

    When two bodies are found brutally murdered at a building site in Battersea, DS Cal Drake is first to the scene. He sees an opportunity: to solve a high-profile case and to repair his reputation after a botched undercover operation almost ended his p...

  • The Heights

    The discovery of a severed head on a London Tube leads private investigators Crane and Drake on a dark journey into the past â€" and a personal quest for retribution.

    In this second title in the London-based Crane and Drake mystery series, Ca...



  • Whitehavens

    When it comes to family, loyalty is everything . . . It's not easy being the head of a feared crime dynasty. Donny Apostolis and his family are at war with the powerful Ziyades, determined to stop them muscling in on the Apostolis empire. For...

  • The Trenches

    A TIMES BEST CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR In London, private investigator Dr Rayhana Crane is contacted by a woman who has received an unexpected letter from her estranged son Jason, not seen since he left to become a fighter for Islamic State. When his s...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Parker Bilal has published 11 books.

Parker Bilal does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Trenches, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Parker Bilal, The Golden Scales, was published in February 2012.

Yes. Parker Bilal has 1 series.
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