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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2013
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

An Atticus Priest Mystery

1 - The House in the Woods (Mar-2020)
2 - A Place to Bury Strangers (Mar-2021)
3 - The Red Room (Aug-2023)

Beatrix Rose

1 - In Cold Blood (Mar-2015)
2 - Blood Moon Rising (Mar-2015)
3 - Blood and Roses (Mar-2015)
4 - The Hong Kong Stories (Aug-2016)
4.5 - Phoenix (May-2017)
5 - Tempest (Feb-2020)

Group Fifteen Files

1 - Scorpion (Oct-2017)
2 - Witness X (Dec-2017)
3 - Little Sister (Mar-2018)
3.5 - The Vault (Feb-2020)
4 - Wormwood (Apr-2022)

An Isabella Rose Thriller

1 - The Angel (Nov-2015)
2 - The Asset: ACT II (Aug-2016)
3 - The Agent (Apr-2017)
4 - The Assassin (Jun-2018)

John Milton

0.5 - One Thousand Yards (Jul-2013)
1 - The Cleaner (Sep-2013)
2 - Saint Death (Jan-2014)
3 - The Driver (Jan-2014)
4 - Ghosts (Feb-2014)
4.5 - Tarantula (Oct-2014)
5 - Salvation Row (Jan-2015)
5.5 - 1,000 Yards (Mar-2015)
6 - The Sword of God (May-2015)
7 - Headhunters (Aug-2015)
8 - The Ninth Step (Jan-2016)
9 - The Jungle (May-2016)
10 - Blackout (Feb-2017)
11 - The Alamo (Jun-2017)
12 - Redeemer (May-2018)
13 - Sleepers (Sep-2018)
14 - Twelve Days (Dec-2018)
15 - Bright Lights (Sep-2019)
16 - The Man Who Never Was (May-2020)
17 - Killa City (Oct-2020)
18 - Ronin (Nov-2020)
19 - Never Let Me Down Again (Jun-2021)
20 - Bulletproof (Aug-2022)
21 - The Sandman (Sep-2022)

Soho Noir Thrillers

1 - The Black Mile (Jan-2013)
2 - The Imposter (Nov-2013)
3 - Gaslight (Dec-2013)

Book List in Order: 48 titles



  • London, 1940: the Luftwaffe blitzes London every night for fifty-seven nights. Houses, shops and entire streets are wiped from the map. The underworld is in flux: the Italian criminals who dominated the West End have been interned and now their rival...



  • Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In t...



  • Have you met Milton? He's a problem solver. The man the British government calls on to take care of the worst of the worst: the enemies of the state that the Secret Service and the military can’t stop. But years of covert identities and clan...



  • Best-selling author Mark Dawson releases the second book in the Soho Noir series. The Imposter is the follow-up to The Black Mile, the #1 bestseller that has earned multiple "5-star" rave reviews from readers in the UK and US....



  • Best-selling author Mark Dawson releases the prequel novella in the Soho Noir series.Gaslight tells of events twenty years before The Imposter and The Black Mile (the #1 Amazon bestseller in Mysteries and Thrillers that has earned multiple 5 star rav...



  • John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn’t want to be found. But wh...



  • John Milton has been off the grid for six months. He surfaces in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and immediately finds himself drawn into a vicious battle with the narco-gangs that control the borderlands. Milton saves the life of an idealistic young journal...



  • John Milton is a ghost. He was Number One. The most dangerous assassin in Group Fifteen, the black-ops organisation that solves problems when diplomacy has failed. Now Milton is Her Majesty’s most wanted fugitive â€" an anonymous loner with a deadl...



  • Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but...






  • John Milton is trying to make amends for a career spent killing for the British Secret Service. He has a burning need to right wrongs - and rewrite his own bloody past. He finds himself in Louisiana â€" the Big Sleazy, the bayou, and the post-Katrina...



  • From Amazon number-one best-selling author Mark Dawson, this novella is an introduction to John Milton, the most dangerous assassin in the pay of Her Majesty’s government.

    Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. Hi...



  • Beatrix Rose has worked her way through her Kill List. Four are dead and just two remain. Her enemies know she’s coming. The hunter becomes the hunted. In a thrilling conclusion to the breakneck trilogy, Beatrix and her daughter must fight them ...



  • Ten years ago, Beatrix Rose headed an off-the-books hit squad to carry out the dirty work of the British government. When she discovered that the commander of the squad was corrupt, he sent five of his assassins to rub her out. But they failed. Bad m...



  • In the vein of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher, action-packed In Cold Blood introduces readers to Beatrix Rose, an exciting new hero with a deadly vendetta. As the most dangerous assassin in a government kill squad, Beatrix Rose isn’t the kind of ...



  • A man called Milton walks into town… On the run from his own demons, John Milton treks through the Michigan wilderness into the town of Truth. He’s not looking for trouble, but trouble's looking for him. He finds himself up against a small-town c...



  • Bury your enemies, and bury them deep. John Milton thought he was done with Avi Bachman. The most dangerous man he's ever known has been incarcerated in Angola, the brutal Louisiana prison. Inmates rarely leave Angola. Once you go in, the only way ou...



  • White light. Heat. A drawn-out moment of complete silence. And then the screaming starts. An Underground carriage in London is destroyed by a suicide bomber. The injured and the dead litter the platform. But as a crowd forms at street level, Micha...



  • John Milton is a former assassin for the British government. He is a ronin, trying to atone for his past sins by offering his services to those people who have no-one else to whom they can turn. Milton is keeping a low profile in London when he meets...



  • An assassin haunted by his past. Two young refugees out of their depth and in need of his special talents. John Milton is no stranger to the world’s seedy underbelly. But when the former British Secret Service agent comes up against a ruthless huma...






  • Isabella Rose, the Angel, is used to surprises, but being abducted is an unwelcome novelty. She’s relying on Michael Pope, the head of the top-secret Group Fifteen, to get her back. When ISIS get involved, the situation becomes even bleaker. Isa...



  • Beatrix Rose has been betrayed. Her husband has been murdered and her daughter, Isabella, abducted. She flees to the Hong Kong underworld to plot her revenge. Those who wronged her will pay. Beatrix is the most dangerous woman you’ve ever met. She ...



  • 13 Bestselling Thriller Novellas and Short Stories by Today's Top Selling Action Thriller Authors!

    The Thriller Thirteen features thirteen novellas and short stories from thirteen award-winning and bestselling authors, with o...



  • An offer he couldn't refuse. A murder he can’t remember…

    John Milton’s life is about to change. The former government assassin follows a lead to Manila that he hopes will change his life. But he never expected to wake up in an unfamili...



  • Isabella Rose is on the run, hunted by the very people she had been hired to work for. Trained killer Isabella and former handler Michael Pope are forced into hiding in India and, when a mysterious informer passes them clues on the whereabouts of Pop...



  • She does Britain’s dirty work, but this time she needs help. Beatrix Rose, meet John Milton…Beatrix Rose has a knack for making the British government’s problems go away. When the assassin is sent to Venezuela to track down a missing scientist,...



  • This standalone thriller is the perfect place to begin the million selling John Milton series.New York isn’t ready for Britain’s most dangerous ex-assassin…John Milton has finally found a place to escape the bloodshed: off-season Coney Island. ...



  • Mark Dawson’s Group Fifteen Files. Quick, lightning-paced, action from the first page to the last.They call him 'Scorpion.' No-one knows his real name and the only people who have seen his face are dead. He works for the highest bidder, and he’s ...



  • Mark Dawson’s Group Fifteen Files. Quick, lightning-paced, action from the first page to the last.Bryan Duffy is Witness X - a government agent implicated in a national scandal and banished to Spain until the agenda can be moved on.But when North K...



  • Mark Dawson’s Group Fifteen Files. Quick, lightning-paced, action from the first page to the last.Bjorn Thorsson joined the Special Air Service to forget the horrors of his childhood. He killed for Queen and country, and he was good at it.He quits ...






  • Over 1m copies sold. Have you met Milton?Rio de Janeiro. Brazilians call it Cidade Maravilhosa - the Marvellous City â€" but crime festers in its favelas like cancer.John Milton is visiting an old friend who runs a close protection business guarding ...



  • Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, is the most dangerous city in the world. And when a mission to break the local cartel’s grip goes wrong, Isabella Rose, the Angel, finds herself on the wrong side of prison bars. Fearing the worst, Isabella plays her only re...



  • When a Russian defector is assassinated in a sleepy English seaside town, Group Fifteen agents John Milton and Michael Pope find themselves in a rush to uncover the culprits and bring them to justice.Their investigation leads them to Moscow and a con...



  • John Milton hasn't seen Elijah Warriner for three years. The last time they met, Milton's efforts to keep the boy safe didn't go exactly to plan. Now Elijah is a promising boxer, preparing for the bout that will take him to the big time. Milton decid...



  • Is John Milton on the path to redemption or the road to revenge?John Milton has done some bad things in his life. Very bad things. Now he’s looking for ways to make amends. But trouble always seems to be looking for him.Heading from San Francisco t...



  • A daughter lost... Nine months ago, Beatrix Rose had her family brutally taken from her. Now all that matters is getting her daughter back. And Beatrix is no ordinary mother - she's a skilled assassin who will do whatever it takes to find her...



  • West Berlin, 1986. The Cold War has not yet thawed, political tensions inspire bloody retribution and trust is a rare commodity - even amongst allies. Harry Mackintosh is the head of MI6's Berlin Station. When four of his best field agen...



  • Four murders. Two detectives. One mystifying crime.On Christmas Eve, DCI Mackenzie Jones is called to a shooting at a remote farmhouse. Ralph Mallender believes his father lies dead inside. When three more bodies are discovered, it's clear a festive ...



  • Can the man who never was catch the criminals who never get caught?  John Milton is used to operating in the shadows, weaving his way through dangerous places behind a fake identity. Now, to avenge the death of a close friend, he must wear ...



  • John Milton travels to Kansas City in an attempt to gain information about the resurrection of Group Fifteen. He finds himself helping a young boy and his mother who have become entangled with two competing local gangsters.This book will be released ...







  • A breathtaking, twisty adventure, A Place to Bury Strangers is the second Atticus Priest mystery. A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up ther...




  • What if it wasn't an accident? Ukraine, 1986. A scientist seeks to defect to the West to tell of negligence and corruption in the Soviet nuclear industry. Two British agents are dispatched to complete his exfiltration, but something th...





  • The 20th book in the multi-million selling John Milton series.Milton is charged with protecting a reclusive billionaire from the threat of assassination. But, when the danger comes from a direction Milton couldn't possibly have predicted, will he and...





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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Dawson has published 48 books.

Mark Dawson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Red Room, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Mark Dawson, The Black Mile, was published in January 2013.

Yes. Mark Dawson has 6 series.