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PAST LIFE
A DS AECTOR McAVOY THRILLER
Book 9 in the Sunday Times Bestselling series
BY DAVID MARK
The Sunday Times and Richard & Judy bestselling DS McAvoy series returns.
To keep his family safe, Aector McAvoy must confront the case that changed his life – and the terrible secret he spent twelve years trying to forget.
Dark secrets. Buried truths. A past that refuses to stay dead.
RACONTEURS AUDIO PRESENTS
THE WYTHENSHAWE DANDY audiobook
by S. J. GALBRAITH
Read by Melanie Crawley
On a cold January night, three people make three portentous decisions…
A gritty, sharply observed, Manchester debut crime novel, where loyalty is everything and betrayal is deadly.
The Critic Debut Novel of the Month
SOME SECRETS REFUSE TO STAY BURIED.
A clairvoyant is found brutally murdered, her tongue crudely carved out and a shard of blue crystal buried deep within her mangled ribcage.
For DS Aector McAvoy, the crime scene is horrifyingly familiar.
It plunges him back twelve years, to an investigation from the beginning of his career – a case that changed the course of his life and one he has tried desperately to forget.
Now, to catch a killer and keep his family safe, McAvoy must confront what really happened. He must face the terrible thing he did – and uncover the truth about his beloved wife, Roisin.
Because Roisin has secrets of her own.
And if they come to light, they could destroy everything McAvoy has fought to protect.
Dark, brutal and intensely personal, Past Life brings David Mark’s critically acclaimed DS McAvoy series back to Hull for its most personal case yet.
READ BY
LIAM GERRARD
RELEASE DATE
August 2026
RUNNING TIME
8 hrs 46 mins
GENRE
Crime • Mystery • Thriller
A HOTLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT. A VOICE TO REMEMBER.
About The Wythenshawe Dandy audiobook
An unoccupied flat. A freshly dressed bed. The body of a young woman laid out neatly on the duvet. The dead girl looks familiar – troublingly familiar – but Detective Inspector Cassie May can’t place her. And to compound her troubles, Cassie has just started dating the flat’s owner, James Flynn.
Read the full synopsis
When her boyfriend is accused of murder, an ambitious young DI risks her career – and her life – by defying her bosses, the security services, and a crime syndicate, to prove the innocence of a man who seems more worried about the long-buried secrets she might unearth than the murder charge hanging over him.
Set across the leafiest Sheffield suburbs, the estates of South Manchester and the bleak, snowy Pennine moors between them, The Wythenshawe Dandy by S. J. Galbraith is a dark, atmospheric crime thriller about privilege, loyalty, betrayal and the secrets that bind people together.
PERFORMED BY
by Melanie Crawley
RELEASE DATE
August 3rd, 2026
RUNNING TIME
13 hrs 4 mins
GENRE
Crime • Mystery • Thriller
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED.
NATIONALLY BESTSELLING.
Praise for David Mark and the DS Aector McAvoy series
David Mark has put Hull on the map... and placed DS Aector McAvoy as one of the most interesting and likeable British detectives.”
“Dark, compelling crime writing of the highest order.”
DAILY MAIL“Aficionados of the grittiest, most trenchant fare love Mark’s copper Aector McAvoy.”
FINANCIAL TIMES“Gory, startling and a complete one-off.”
THE SUNDAY TIMES“A brilliant read.”
THE SUN“Compelling and harrowing.”
DAILY EXPRESS“Polished prose, lovable recurring characters, and a stunning revelation.”
KIRKUS REVIEWSStarred review of Past Life
“A fine police procedural... Ian Rankin fans will be pleased.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLYon Past Life
PRAISE FROM LEADING CRIME WRITERS
“Truly exhilarating and inventive. Mark is a wonderfully descriptive writer and an exciting young talent.”
PETER JAMES Sunday Times bestselling author“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 Slow Horses“More twists and turns than a corkscrew through the eyeball.”
VAL McDERMID International bestselling crime writer“Breathtaking. Mark writes bad beautifully.”
PETER MAY International bestselling author
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