David Mark Books in Order

A run of brutal deaths in wintry Hull seems unconnected until McAvoy spots the pattern everyone else has missed. The first book in the series introduces a deeply decent detective in a city full of old hurt and fresh blood.

What looks like a suicide draws McAvoy into Hull's underground sex scene, gang conflict, and political rot. As more bodies appear, he realizes someone is marking people for their darkest sins.

What starts as a family holiday in the Spanish countryside becomes a wild fight with goblins, demons, and underground monsters. Twelve-year-old Willow Wrigglesworth has to find unexpected courage before morning comes.

Violence is rising across Hull as a new criminal force tightens its grip, while McAvoy and Trish hunt a killer with a long memory. The case is savage, personal, and far too close to home.

Still reeling from the attack that shattered his home life, McAvoy is eased back to work with a supposedly closed case from half a century ago. It proves anything but safe, pulling him into old crimes and fresh danger.

One girl has been missing for months, another has turned up dead, and McAvoy refuses to let either case slide into silence. The investigation twists into questions of vengeance, mercy, and who gets to decide what justice means.

When McAvoy's brother-in-law is blamed for bloodshed in upstate New York, the Hull detective has to cross the Atlantic to find the truth. New York's cops, gangs, and old loyalties make this a darker, bigger outing for the series.

In cholera-ravaged Hull in 1849, former soldier Meshach Stone is hired to protect an academic hunting holy relics. When murder follows, he is forced into a filthy, feverish hunt through plague, grief, and vengeance.

The police think a troublesome young woman has simply disappeared, but McAvoy suspects something far worse. A body pinned to a wall and signs of a missing child drive him toward a violent reckoning with his own past.

When McAvoy finds an elderly woman frozen inside her own home, the scene looks too strange to be accidental. The trail leads from Hull to Iceland and back into half-buried fishing history, grief, and murder.

Ten-year-old Hilda refuses to believe her missing friend has simply gone away. As her mother Molly and pathologist turned online sleuth Lottie start asking questions, they uncover a disturbing pattern in London's East End.

This dual-title edition presents the first Cordelia Hemlock novel. A storm reveals a fresh corpse in a crumbling tomb, and Cordelia's digging brings old village loyalties and Second World War secrets to the surface.

A prisoner dies while out on day release, and everyone is ready to call it misfortune. McAvoy is not, especially when the case ties back to a debt he owes and enemies who have not gone away.

When Adam Nunn learns he was adopted, he hires a private investigator to find his birth parents. After the investigator is found mutilated in an old mob dumping ground, Adam is dragged into a brutal world of gangland secrets.

This McAvoy prequel goes back to Hull before the main series and shows the young detective on a case that will mark him for life. It also fills in key history with Trish Pharaoh and the scars he carries forward.

This dual-title edition contains the first Lakeland mystery. Thirty years after three girls followed a stranger into the woods and only two returned, writer Rowan Blake digs into the case and finds something far darker than rumor.

After a crash on lonely country roads, Liz Zahavi is rescued by a brooding farmer who seems like exactly the safe haven she needs. But his dead wife's shadow, and Liz's own unstable grip on events, make trust feel impossible.

In 1967, grieving outsider Cordelia Hemlock sees a fresh corpse in a storm-broken tomb, only for it to vanish. Her search for the truth leads into village suspicion, wartime secrets, and a friendship that becomes central to the series.

This dual-title edition contains the first Nicholas Roe thriller. Ronni Ashcroft's remote Highland guest house becomes the edge of a trafficking scheme after her new lover vanishes and the scarred Nicholas Roe starts asking dangerous questions.

A washed-up author takes a creative writing job in prison and walks into a trap built from old sins and new manipulation. As a prison officer hides her past and a terrifying inmate starts playing games, the class turns deadly.

When a man is shot, sealed inside a beer barrel, and sent down the Humber, the trail leads McAvoy to a riverside pub full of people who know more than they will say. This short case is a sharp introduction to Hull and its silences.

A murdered clairvoyant pulls McAvoy back to a case from the start of his career, one he has tried hard to forget. To catch the killer, he has to face old guilt and the secrets inside his own marriage.

In this memoir, Mark writes with brutal honesty about mental illness, addiction, suicidal thoughts, family life, and survival. It is dark, funny, painful, and grounded in the daily work of choosing to stay alive.

In 1628, a hired killer and a ruthless apothecary find themselves on the same deadly voyage to Batavia. Their clashing missions turn a historical adventure of heresy, greed, and murder into something savage.

A mutilated body in woodland, with Roman coins nailed over the victim's eyes, gives DS Aector McAvoy one of his bleakest cases. His promise to find justice soon puts the people he loves most in danger.

Desk-bound after undercover work, Cordelia Hemlock gets a call from her old MI6 contact Walt, who says he has a secret for her alone. The result is a moody spy thriller about loyalty, friendship, and dangerous truths in the Borderlands.

On a family holiday, McAvoy learns that someone has been attacked in his place, and that the timing is no accident. Secrets kept by Trish Pharaoh begin to surface, putting the whole team at risk.

A weekend away for his estranged mother's birthday should be awkward at worst, but McAvoy ends up in the middle of a suspicious death. Old family grievances and local power games turn the trip into a nightmare.

After a mass killing in central London leaves Claudine's brother dead, police claim he planned it. Back in the Fens, she follows his research into a medieval cult and discovers how little she really knew him.

A notorious killer may soon walk free unless McAvoy and Trish can prove what he really is. Their fight to stop his parole collides with a vigilante hunt and another body on a lonely road.

Traffic officer Sal Delaney is called to an accident scene and recognizes the dead man from the darkest part of her childhood. The discovery drags her back toward the unanswered question of who really killed her mother.

McAvoy is told to reopen the ten-year-old murder of a beloved fight coach, a case Hull has never really forgotten. As he digs deeper, the trail reaches into a powerful family and a much larger criminal web.

Trying to keep her life together, Sal Delaney is handed a new case that quickly becomes much more than a traffic accident. Medieval torture chambers, buried secrets, and a hostile senior officer make the pressure almost unbearable.

Claudine has spent years keeping her troubled brother at a distance, then watches him die before he can explain the secret he has found. In the Fens, her search for answers leads toward older beliefs, hidden history, and a danger that may be waking up.

When a woman disappears from a remote Cumbrian lake, ex-con and private investigator Moses Crow is pulled back to the place he left behind. Old rumors, family loyalty, and long-buried secrets rise with the water.

At a road accident scene near a place locals call the Murder House, Sal Delaney finds a death that looks like suicide but feels wrong. The case pulls her toward old enemies and people she thought she could trust.