David Mark

David Mark spent more than 15 years as a journalist including seven years as a crime reporter with The Yorkshire Post - walking the Hull streets that would later become the setting for the Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy novels.

His writing is heavily influenced by the court cases he covered: the defeatist and jaded police officers; the competent and incompetent investigators; the inertia of the justice system and the sheer raw grief of those touched by savagery and tragedy.

He has written five novels in the McAvoy series: Dark Winter Original Skin Sorrow Bound Taking Pity and Dead Pretty. David has also written a McAvoy novella A Bad Death which is available as an ebook. He lives in Lincolnshire with his partner two children and an assortment of animals.