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Dead Pretty

The 5th DS McAvoy Novel

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Dead Pretty

By: David Mark
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
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One girl's missing. One girl's dead. McAvoy can't let either of them go....

The fifth stunning novel in the DS McAvoy series by best-selling author David Mark, perfect for fans of Val McDermid and Peter Robinson.

Hannah Kelly has been missing for nine months. Ava Delaney has been dead for five days. One girl to find. One girl to avenge. And DS Aector McAvoy won't let either of them go until justice can be done. But some people have their own ideas of what justice means....

Dead Pretty is the stunning new novel from one of Britain's most original crime writers.

©2016 Dead Pretty Limited (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Suspense

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As always the story is full of twists and turns. Narration is excellent. I love David Mark books . Can always be guaranteed of a great listen . Every character believable as we are all complicated beings .

Sublime 6 stars out of 5!

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This is the fifth book in a series about Det. Sgt. Aector McAvoy and his life in the Humberside Police.
McAvoy is working on the case of the disappearance of a young woman when another is brutal murder nine months.
Meanwhile, McAvoy’s boss, Det. Supt. Trish Pharaoh, is in the spotlight when a convicted of murder is freed when his conviction is quashed on appeal.
David Mark keeps the reader guessing and Toby Longworth is an excellent narrator.

Book 5 in series

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wonderful book and beautifully read. Can't wait to listen to the next one...A must have

Gripping from start to finish!

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So stunned by this truly gifted writer and narrator- that I’ve not stopped to review them.

These books are a revelation. The intensity of character driven episodic drama is spectacular and I’ve not been so captured since Len Deighton and Joe Nesbo.

Toby LW is incredible. So gifted.

Thank you both. Every new character bursts into my world in bright colour…like Welsh Andy..from nowhere he is suddenly in there!!

Incredible

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This story was all over the place which made it confusing. Least liked out of all the books.

Confusing...

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