Mark Griffin

In April 2017, Mark was short-listed in the top five out of three and a half thousand entrants in a national crime thriller writing competition sponsored by Random House Publishing for his debut novel, When Darkness Calls, (released 2018) which was nominated for the prestigious John Creasy Blood Dagger Award. His third book Silent Death (When Silence Kills) was short-listed for the thriller of 2022 in Germany.

When Darkness Calls was the first book in a series starring criminal psychologist Holly Wakefield and DI Bishop of the Metropolitan Police. Little Brown Books in the UK acquired world English rights for the first four books from Mark, his debut and its sequel When Angels Sleep (released March 2019), book three, When Silence Kills (released August 2021) and book four, When Evil Wakes (release date August 2022) through Luigi Bonomi at LBA Books. German rights for the same four books were pre-empted by Harper Collins Germany via Nicki Kennedy at ILA which is handling all translation rights.

Mark has just signed a six book deal with Boldwood Books. The new series is set in Portland, Maine, and follows forensic psychologist Oswald Bennet as he is asked to help the local police in a bizarre series of murders.