David Mark

Dark Winter

Detective    DS Aector McAvoy
Location     Hull UK
Time           2008/9
Genre         Police Procedural

This is Mark's first novel featruring Aector McAvoy as DS with a past. He has prior to this novel been involved with securing the downfall of a bent senior detective for which he has not received the full credit due and has stirred up some resentment amongst some of his colleagues although his immediate superior clearly holds his skills in high regard, not that he is as aware of that as he should be. The novel opens with two apparently unconnected killings, one on superfreighter off Iceland of a man who survived a trawler tragedy many years ago, the other of a teenager in chyrch during a service in Hull. 

The links bewteen the killings and other subsequent murders gradually become apparent as the plot unfurls. 

The McAvoy sub plot is around his young family and the birth of their second child. How this will develop in the sequence of novels is to be seen but there are hints that Mcavoy may well find himself compromised by his female boss.

A second novel, "Original Skin" is due for publication in April 2013

Rating A

Web Reference  Quercus Books/David Mark