Cold Bones by David Mark - ISBN: 9781473643215
Paperback
Frozen secrets, brutal killings: the past returns to haunt the living.

Cold Bones

The 8th DS McAvoy Novel

  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    3 October 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 fishing trawler, his boss Trish is half…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473643215
ISBN-10:147364321X
Author:David Mark
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Mulholland Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:3 October 2019
Weight:260g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 30mm
Series:DS McAvoy
What They're Saying

Critics Review

A brilliant read.

Praise for David Mark - -

Dark, compelling crime writing of the highest order - Daily Mail

Truly 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 Times

Breathtaking. Mark writes bad beautifully

More twists and turns than a corkscrew through the eyeball

Mark’s rich, distinctive prose style and damaged characters compel you to keep reading… shaping up to be an essential crime series - Crime Scene Magazine

In 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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