The Dark Winter: A NovelThe New York Times hails David Mark's work as "in the honorable tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and Ed McBain." DARK WINTER is the first book in the internationally acclaimed Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy series. A series of suspicious deaths have rocked Hull, a port city in England as old and mysterious as its bordering sea. They have captured the attention of Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy. He notices a pattern missed by his fellow officers, who would rather get a quick arrest than bother themselves with finding the true killer. Torn between his police duties and his aching desire to spend more time with his pregnant wife and young son, McAvoy is an unlikely hero: a physically imposing man far more comfortable exploring computer databases than throwing around his muscle. Compelled by his keen sense of justice, he decides to strike out alone—but in the depths of the dark winter, it’s difficult to forget what happened the last time he found himself on the wrong side of a killer’s blade… David Mark’s latest Detective Sergeant McAvoy novel, CRUEL MERCY, is on-sale February 2017. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 23 |
Section 3 | 33 |
Section 4 | 43 |
Section 5 | 52 |
Section 6 | 65 |
Section 7 | 76 |
Section 8 | 88 |
Section 16 | 185 |
Section 17 | 197 |
Section 18 | 220 |
Section 19 | 233 |
Section 20 | 245 |
Section 21 | 257 |
Section 22 | 261 |
Section 23 | 268 |
Section 9 | 95 |
Section 10 | 122 |
Section 11 | 134 |
Section 12 | 147 |
Section 13 | 155 |
Section 14 | 164 |
Section 15 | 175 |
Section 24 | 282 |
Section 25 | 288 |
Section 26 | 293 |
Section 27 | 297 |
Section 28 | 302 |
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