Cold Bones
The 8th DS McAvoy Novel
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2019
Summary
It’s the coldest winter in Hull for years.
When McAvoy is told by a concerned stranger that an elderly woman hasn’t been seen for a few days, he goes to check on her - only to find her in the bath, encased in ice: the heating off; the windows open; the whole house frozen over.
It could be a macabre accident, but McAvoy senses murder. Someone watched her die.
As he starts to uncover the victim’s story and her connections to a lost fishi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473643192 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473643198 |
| Author: | David Mark |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Mulholland Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 159mm x 29mm |
| Series: | DS McAvoy |
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Dark, compelling crime writing of the highest order - Daily MailTruly exhilarating and inventive. Mark is a wonderfully descriptive writer and an exciting young talent.Aficionados of the grittiest, most trenchant fare love Mark’s copper Aector McAvoy, who customarily moves in a darkly realised Hull. - Financial TimesBreathtaking. Mark writes bad beautifullyMore twists and turns than a corkscrew through the eyeballMark’s rich, distinctive prose style and damaged characters compel you to keep reading… shaping up to be an essential crime series - Crime Scene MagazineIn McAvoy, David Mark has created a big hero with a huge heart. His skill at weaving threads of light through the darkest fabric has rightly won him a legion of fans who like their crime fiction to be real and compassionate.About The Author
David Mark
David spent more than fifteen years as a journalist, including seven years as a crime reporter with the Yorkshire Post - walking the Hull streets that would later become the setting for the Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy novels.
He has written eight novels in the McAvoy series: Dark Winter, Original Skin, Sorrow Bound, Taking Pity, Dead Pretty, Cruel Mercy, and Scorched Earth as well as two McAvoy ebook short stories, A Bad Death and Fire of Lies. Dark Winter was selected for the Harrogate New Blood panel and was a Richard & Judy pick and a Sunday Times bestseller. In 2018 it was adapted for the stage at the Hull Truck Theatre and had a sellout debut run. David has also written The Zealot’s Bones, a historical crime novel published under the name D.M. Mark.
He lives in the north of England with his family.
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