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Hull, East Yorkshire. Two weeks before Christmas. Three bodies in the morgue. The victims - each a sole survivor of a past tragedy - killed in the manner they once cheated death. Somebody is playing God. And it falls to DS Aector McAvoy to stop their deadly game.
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David Mark has been a journalist for fifteen years, including seven years as crime reporter with Yorkshire Post in their Hull office. The Dark Winter is his first novel.
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*Starred Review* Cops in the economically ravaged northern England city of Hull don’t know what to think of the new detective who has joined the force. Aector McAvoy is a veritable giant, and there are vague rumors that he was nearly killed bringing down a rogue cop and a contract killer. But in Hull, he is a shy computer wizard who silently wishes he could spend all his time with his pregnant wife and young son. Then there’s his name; Hull cops don’t know it’s a Scots spelling of Hector. But Aector is on the scene when a teenage girl is savagely murdered in Hull’s most historic church, and it is Aector who discovers that the girl and subsequent victims were all survivors of previous fatal tragedies. And it is Aector who must end the murderous rampage. First-novelist Mark shrewdly makes Aector an enigma for readers, too, slowly building the conflicted hero throughout the book. Equally shrewdly, he gives Aector a tough and insightful female supervisor, who, after puckishly remarking he should have come with an “owner’s manual,” ultimately unpacks her complex charge. Mark’s years as a Hull journalist, his descriptions of a blighted city “on the bones of its arse,” and winter weather that ranges from merely dismal to brutal burnish an impressive debut. John Harvey readers should take note. --Thomas Gaughan
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- PublisherQuercus Publishing Plc
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 085738919X
- ISBN 13 9780857389190
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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