Donald MacKenzie

Author Information
Donald MacKenzie's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    February 2014
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

A John Raven Mystery

1 - Raven in Flight (1976)
2 - Raven and the Ratcatcher (1977)
3 - Raven and the Kamikaze (1977)
4 - Raven Settles a Score (1978)
5 - Raven Feathers His Nest (Mar-1994)
6 - Raven and the Paperhangers (Sep-1980)
7 - Raven's Revenge (1980)
8 - Raven's Longest Night (Dec-1983)
9 - Raven's Shadow (1984)
10 - Loose Cannon (Dec-1993)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Raven in Flight

    A John Raven Mystery - 1

    John Raven - the ex-cop with a taste for exotic adventures and voluptuous adventurers - is unexpectedly thrust into the thick of the action. His Andalusian holiday turns out to be no picnic when he finds himself at the crossroads of the snow-white ...

  • Raven and the Kamikaze

    A John Raven Mystery - 3

    Terminally ill Polish refugee Henryk Lamprecht, a decoder for British Security, has a score to settle with the Russian who killed his wife and daughter. As he is close to death, he has no time to lose when an opportunity he has been waiting for turns...

  • Raven and the Ratcatcher

    A John Raven Mystery - 2

    When John Raven is somehow connected to the case of a criminal abortion that ended in death he finds himself embroiled with his old nemesis, former Chief Superintendent Drake of Scotland Yard. But what Drake doesn't realise is the death is only incid...

  • Raven Settles a Score

    A John Raven Mystery - 4

    John Raven - the ex-cop with a taste for exotic adventures and voluptuous adventurers - is unexpectedly thrust into the thick of the action. His Andalusian holiday turns out to be no picnic when he finds himself at the crossroads of the snow-white ...

  • Raven after dark

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    First American Edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Rubbing to the head and base of the spine and to the book's corners. The dust jacket has creases and rubs to its spine tips and rubs/bumps to its corners....

  • Raven's Revenge

    A John Raven Mystery - 7

    George Drake, the former Commander at Scotland Yard and nemesis of John Raven, is out of prison having served a sentence for police corruption. In court, Drake vowed retribution on Raven, who was instrumental in his conviction, and now he's out to sn...

  • Raven and the Paperhangers

    A John Raven Mystery - 6

    London's favourite anti-establishment sleuth, John Raven, visits his photographer-girlfriend Kirstie in Paris. Kirstie, it seems, has inadvertently photographed three men involved in a high-class, multi-million-dollar forgery - the mastermind, financ...

  • Raven's Longest Night

    A John Raven Mystery - 8

    Retired British Inspector Detective John Raven finds himself accused of murder and enmeshed in a web of blackmail, government intrigue, and patriotism while vacationing on the sunny coasts of Portugal and Spain...

  • Raven's Shadow

    A John Raven Mystery - 9

    When a bent London policeman carries out two ruthless murders, it is with the goal of making himself rich through the sale of stolen diamonds. And to cover his tracks he sets up an ingenious labyrinth of false covers and alibis. But when ex-cop John ...



  • Nobody Here by That Name

    Ex-cop and investigator John Raven becomes involved with a killing carried out in England but arranged by US Intelligence services with the connivance of their English equivalents. And it just so happens that it is a friend of Raven who is manoeuvred...

  • By Any Illegal Means

  • The Eyes of the Goat

  • Loose Cannon

    A John Raven Mystery - 10

  • Raven Feathers His Nest

    A John Raven Mystery - 5

  • Deep Dark and Dead

    The charge against Shane Stafford was 'Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm'. Stafford had attacked a gossip journalist called Gavin Legge. Legge had been engaged at one time to Shane's twin sister. In Shane's view Legge had not just let down his s...

  • Cool Sleeps Balaban

    Scott and Usher both need money, and they need it badly. One to save his farm, the other his future. Usher is an experienced criminal and housebreaker, but Scott is a rookie - he's desperate for cash, but petrified of the implications that his action...

  • Dangerous Silence

    For six years Kit Fraser has been an honest man, selling burglary insurance for his father-in-law. But no one knows the truth about his history, and why he is so uniquely placed to advise his clients. No one, that is, except Kline, who emerges from t...

  • Dead Straight

    The ad in the Daily Telegraph read: 'Wanted: a man of resource and courage to act as companion'. Ex-con Macbeth Bain must stay on the right side of the law, and this job seems like the perfect opportunity for him to prove that he can. A woman ...

  • The Juryman

    Gerry Steel's loyalty to the man he worked for is total, and he will stop at nothing to ensure that Sullivan, on trial on an attempted murder charge, goes free. Once he has fixed the jury, and is assured that it will hang, Steel assumes there is no...



  • Knife Edge

    Neil MacFarlane, a gentleman gambler on the French Riviera, is caught in a run of bad luck. His only chance to recoup his losses lies in gaining admittance to a private game, far from the eagle-eyed supervision of the Cannes casino croupier. But by t...

  • The Kyle Contract

    Brady Jordan wasn't hired to fall in love. He was hired to make a pass at a strawberry blonde and be the evidence in a divorce set-up that her husband badly needed. So when he started getting the usual human twinges he expected something to go wrong....

  • Night Boat from Puerto Vedra

    It was largely chance that took Dougal Macneil to the empty racetrack that morning, but when he inadvertently sees - and photographs - something he shouldn't he is soon under threat from a seemingly omnipotent force. Colonel Weber, head of police of...

  • Three Minus Two

    Journalist Hamish Hunter finds himself in possession of a film on which the fate of several people and the relations between two countries - Poland and Great Britain - depend. But who can he trust? His girlfriend, Wanda, daughter of a dracin Polish c...

  • Teutonic Myth and Legend

  • The Sixth Deadly Sin

    When Martin Mallory falls in love with a beautiful student, he has no idea the trouble it will cause. Suddenly Li Cho disappears from the secretive Wycherly Foundation for Religious Studies. The principal, Ludovic Lambert, says she has been transferr...

  • Zaleski's Percentage

    Zaleski is a middle-aged philanderer determined to retrieve the Virgin's Dowry, a jeweled monstrance worth 500,000, which has reappeared for display in an art gallery in Conduit Street in London. This ageing Polish patriot carries out the crime but ...

  • Death is a Friend

    'Donald MacKenzie is a born storyteller' Guardian Every thief dreams of committing the perfect crime. Cameron, Thorne and Gun are convinced that the jewel robbery they have planned cannot possibly go wrong, but jealousy mistrust and fear doom the...

  • Deep, Dark and Dead

    The charge against Shane Stafford was assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Stafford had attacked gossip columnist Gavin Legge. Legge had been engaged to Shane's twin sister. In Shane's view Legge had not just let down his sister, but had hounded h...

  • Double Exposure

    Kit Hendry has several criminal convictions, but now he is given the choice of a twelve-year sentence or a government mission to trace the security leakage from a Dusseldorf installation. Kit can crack safes - he can also speak German. Under the vig...



  • The Genial Stranger

    Beware of the Genial Stranger. Confidence tricksters are operating throughout Europe! Be on your guard against the man wanting to reward you for returning his dropped wallet. Before parting with money to strangers on any pretext check with your ban...

  • The Last of the Boatriders

    At the age of 63, Philip Drury was 25 years away from his days as a 'boatrider' - a conman afloat. At that time his criminal partner had been a man called Mark Russell. In the years in between Drury had built up a hugely successful stud, and become i...

  • The Lonely Side of the River

    Defrauding an insurance company is not an unusual crime, but the way Stephen Venner planned to do it was not only unusual but macabre. But then Stephen Venner was a totally selfish and amoral man, and with the push of blackmail behind him, and the st...

  • Nowhere to Go

    Paul Gregory, a Canadian confidence trickster operating in London, targets a wealthy Canadian woman in Britain to sell her collection of valuable coins. When she agrees to give him legal control over the sale, he completes the deal without her knowle...

  • Postscript to a Dead Letter

    Ross Macintyre is a tough Canadian journalist in Paris on a routine mission when he finds himself deeply involved in the consequences of the wrongful imprisonment of Radnor Brown; Radnor is charged with rape, for which the scenario and the evidence h...

  • The Scent of Danger

    It was a dazzling two-man jewel robbery that went like clockwork, but when Arran and his confederate, Bain, fall out the plot takes a sinister turn. Bain learns that Arran has left with the take, and without his wife, Caroline, for Gibraltar. With ...

  • Sleep is for the Rich

    Paul Henderson is a big time jewel thief on a run of bad luck. He has a seven-year-old daughter to support, so when he's offered a partnership in the biggest heist of all time he decides to try to take the baubles and run. He reaches Switzerland, wh...

  • Raven 03/After Dark

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • Salute from a Dead Man

    • / Suspense
    • Buy Buy

    Leaving jail with the intention of going straight, Ritchie Duncan manages to find work as a barman. But when in the pub one evening a young, frightened-looking girl pushes a small package into his hand and then hurries away, Ritchie finds himself qui...

  • A Savage State of Grace

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    When ex-Detective Inspector John Raven goes on jury duty, the trial he attends is the prosecution of an Englishman and his German girlfriend for heroin smuggling. Raven is convinced the girl has been duped, but she is sentenced while Pelham, her 'lov...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donald MacKenzie has published 39 books.

Donald MacKenzie does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Deep, Dark and Dead, was published in February 2014.

The first book by Donald MacKenzie, Raven in Flight, was published in January 1976.

Yes. Donald MacKenzie has 1 series.
Author Series
Top Authors in Fantasy
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe