Mark Mills Books in Order

When fishermen discover a socialite’s body off Long Island, deputy police chief Tom Hollis doubts her death was accidental. His investigation and a fisherman’s private search expose secrets beneath a coastal community being reshaped by war and wealthy newcomers.

Arriving in Tuscany in 1958, young scholar Adam Strickland investigates the symbolism of a Renaissance garden. His fascination with its owners draws him toward two mysteries separated by centuries, where love, revenge and murder cast shadows over the villa.

In wartime Malta, information officer Max Chadwick works to sustain morale under constant bombardment. Evidence that a British officer is murdering local women forces him into a secret investigation, pitting patriotic duty against the need to uncover the truth.

Retired intelligence agent Tom Nash has rebuilt his life on the French Riviera, until an intruder tries to kill him. Suspecting betrayal among the friends gathered for summer, he must uncover his enemy without destroying everyone he loves.

Struggling to support his son, Ben Makepeace welcomes a meeting with a billionaire who might back his work. Discovering the man is a manipulative schoolmate brings old rivalries into the present, where wealth gives resentment new opportunities to flourish.

When Clara leaves him, Dan inherits a scruffy dog he never wanted and plans to find it another home. Doggo instead becomes an unexpected companion, drawing Dan toward connections and possibilities he had not imagined for his newly single life.

An assassination attempt in Paris sends British intelligence officer Luke Hamilton fleeing across Europe in 1937. What appears to be mistaken identity leads him toward secrets older than his childhood abandonment, as relentless pursuers close in.

Florence Winslow survives a car collision that kills the other driver, but detectives find troubling inconsistencies in the accident. Her connection to a powerful, wealthy family draws them into a case where a dying patriarch’s fortune may explain everything.