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Cruel Mercy

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5th October 2017

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444798159

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‘Effortlessly blends the brutal and the tender, the dark and the light. Aector McAvoy is a true original. So is David Mark.’ Mick Herron, author of Dead Lions

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 after him: into the darkness of murder, revenge, and a forty-year-old crime…

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Reviews

Anya Lipska
The McAvoy series pulls off the double whammy of cracking characters and cunning plots. The big detective Aector McAvoy is so real and so loveable you want to have a pint with him, and the legendary Trish Pharaoh proves that a man can create an utterly compelling female character
Val McDermid
More twists and turns than a corkscrew through the eyeball
Peter May
Breathtaking. Mark writes bad beautifully
Mari Hannah, author of the Kate Daniels series
The exceptional McAvoy series just got better. DEAD PRETTY is a gripping thriller...proof that David Mark is up there with the best
Peter James
Truly exhilarating and inventive. Mark is a wonderfully descriptive writer and an exciting young talent.
The Times
There is a good array of villains, and Mark is impressive in his sensitive portrayals of the relationships between the principal characters at work and home.
Crime Scene Magazine
Mark's rich, distinctive prose style and damaged characters compel you to keep reading... shaping up to be an essential crime series
Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
Dark, compelling crime writing of the highest order
The Sunday Times
Highly entertaining
Mick Herron, author of <i>Dead Lions</i>
Effortlessly blends the brutal and the tender, the dark and the light. Aector McAvoy is a true original. So is David Mark.
Michael J Malone, author of <i>A Suitable Lie</i>
McAvoy must be one of the most fascinating fictional detectives out there - a true original. This is an intoxicating brew - Catholicism, travellers, underground fight scenes, the mob - and rumbling through it all like a bear with a blush is DS Aector McAvoy. Superb writing. A truly fantastic read.
Steve Cavanagh
David Mark takes McAvoy to the US on a rollercoaster ride into darkness. Brilliantly written and compelling.
Kirkus starred review
To call Mark's novels police procedurals is like calling the Mona Lisa a pretty painting. Beautifully crafted, filled with flashbacks, horror, angst, and chilling detail, this one is his most complex and best yet.
Sarah Hilary
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.
Sun
A brilliant read.
Financial Times
Aficionados of the grittiest, most trenchant fare love Mark's copper Aector McAvoy, who customarily moves in a darkly realised Hull.
Crime Review
As with previous books, there are plenty of grim events to balance the warmth which surrounds the leading character.
Karen Robinson, <i>The Sunday Times</i>
David Mark has created a true hero for an age of dark deeds and dirty cops. The violence is righteous and the collars hard-won for DS Aector McAvoy, and as his luminous humanity and blazing courage take on the worst Hull can chuck at him, we follow him willingly down the meanest of streets.