Cruel Mercy, 9781444798159
Paperback
Missing brother-in-law. Deadly secrets. McAvoy follows darkness across the world.

Cruel Mercy

The 6th DS McAvoy Novel from the Richard & Judy bestselling author

  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    9 October 2017

Summary

DS Aector McAvoy’s brother-in-law Valentine is missing.

In New York City, half the world away.

And the two men he travelled with have just been found in an open grave upstate: one dead, one as good as.

McAvoy doesn’t believe Valentine killed them. He does believe he’s in trouble. And so he follows him to New York, determined to find out what happened.

But Valentine is in more danger than McAvoy could have imagined.

And McAvoy’s walking into it right aft…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781444798159
ISBN-10:1444798154
Author:David Mark
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Mulholland Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:9 October 2017
Weight:240g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 28mm
Series:DS McAvoy
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Breathtaking. Mark writes bad beautifully

More twists and turns than a corkscrew through the eyeball

In terms of food analogies, some books are bland or subtly flavoured, while others are like a fiery curry. David Mark’s DS McAvoy books are unarguably in the latter category - Independent

One of the darkest of the new faces in British crime writing, and not one to miss - Daily Mail

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 six novels in the McAvoy series: Dark Winter, Original Skin, Sorrow Bound, Taking Pity, Dead Pretty and Cruel Mercy, as well as a McAvoy novella, A Bad Death, which is available as an ebook. Dark Winter was selected for the Harrogate New Blood panel and was a Richard & Judy pick and a Sunday Times bestseller.

He lives in Lincolnshire.

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