Mark de Castrique

Author Information
Mark de Castrique's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2003
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

Buryin' Barry Clayton

1 - Dangerous Undertaking (May-2003)
2 - Grave Undertaking (May-2004)
3 - Foolish Undertaking (Mar-2006)
4 - Final Undertaking (May-2007)
5 - Fatal Undertaking (Oct-2010)
6 - Risky Undertaking (Nov-2014)
7 - Secret Undertaking (Sep-2018)

A Sam Blackman Mystery

1 - Blackman's Coffin (Jun-2008)
2 - Fitzgerald Ruse (Aug-2009)
3 - The Sandburg Connection (Oct-2011)
4 - A Murder in Passing (Jul-2013)
5 - A Specter of Justice (Nov-2015)
6 - Hidden Scars (Oct-2017)
7 - Murder in Rat Alley (Jan-2020)
8 - Fatal Scores (Mar-2021)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Dangerous Undertaking

    Buryin' Barry Clayton - 1

    "[A] marvelous mystery you won't want to put down." -- Publishers WeeklyBarry Clayton has a job he doesn't want. When his father became stricken with Alzheimer's, Barry left the Charlotte police force for the small mountain community of Gainesboro, ...

  • Grave Undertaking

    Buryin' Barry Clayton - 2

    "[A] first-rate installment in an excellent series." -- BooklistBarry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father's funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains. But Buryin' Barry is an undertaker with...

  • Foolish Undertaking

    Buryin' Barry Clayton - 3

    The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into the national spotlight, the body is stolen from the embalming room and funeral director Barry Clayton is knocked unconscious. Ouch. How will Clayton & C...

  • A Conspiracy of Genes

    Gene Adamson thought he knew the answers.He thought he'd cracked the conspiracy wide open.He was so wrong.As a young girl's life hangs in the balance, seventeen-year-old Gene Adamson stumbles into a conspiracy so deadly the very knowledge of its exis...

  • Final Undertaking

    Buryin' Barry Clayton - 4

    When Barry Clayton's father developed Alzheimer's, Barry gave up his career in law enforcement to return to the North Carolina mountain town of Gainesboro and run the family's funeral home. But even a small town in the Appalachians is not immune to c...

  • Blackman's Coffin

    A Sam Blackman Mystery - 1

    "A wealth of historical detail, an exciting treasure hunt and credible characters distinguish this fresh, adventurous read." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewSam Blackman is an angry man. A Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detac...

  • Death On A Southern Breeze

    A LOCKED-ROOM YOUNG ADULT WHODUNIT IN THE CLASSIC TRADITION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

    A VIEW OF HISTORY REVEALED THROUGH A MYSTERY

    JUNE 1860 -- A new locomotive christened A Southern Breeze steams across the Carolina countryside car...

  • Fitzgerald Ruse

    A Sam Blackman Mystery - 2

    "An excellent regional mystery, full of local color and historical detail." -- Library JournalFormer Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital in Asheville, NC, as a bitter civilian without a job or a f...

  • Blackman

    Sam Blackman is an angry man. A Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the U.S. military, he lost a leg in Iraq. His outspoken criticism of his medical treatment resulted in his transfer to the Veteran’s Hospital in Ashev...



  • Fatal Undertaking

    Buryin' Barry Clayton - 5

    Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds United States Junior Chamber (Jaycee) member Archie Donovan’s request absurd until he learns the casket will be the centerpiece of the Jaycees’ haunted house, a charity event with all pro...

  • A DYING BUSINESS

    When old Birdie Campbell dies, many in the NC mountain town of Ridgetop are not particularly sorrowed by her passing. But McAdams & Son Funeral Home still has to plan a service and find someone willing to say good things about the dearly departed. Bi...

  • Two of a Kind

    Two short stories from when times were simpler but Life still complicated.The title story, "Two of a Kind," finds two brothers making an unusual pact with an old mountaineer."Emptying the Barn" recalls a childhood memory of when an unlikely relative ...

  • The Sandburg Connection

    A Sam Blackman Mystery - 3

    A simple assignment for private investigator Sam Blackman and his partner Nakayla Robertson: follow Professor Janice Wainwright, who's suing a surgeon for malpractice, and catch her in activities that undercut her claim. When Wainwright visits Co...

  • 13th Target

    When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Russell Mullins quits the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a Washington D.C. private protection company and is assigned to guard Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive and its chief liaison with ...

  • Double Cross of Time

    DOUBLE CROSS OF TIME - A Thriller from the Future JULY 4, 2012 - SCIENTISTS MAKE NEW DISCOVERY - THE ELUSIVE GOD PARTICLE? The headline flashed around the world and ushered in a new era of scientific research. But where will it lead? What dangers wil...

  • A Murder in Passing

    A Sam Blackman Mystery - 4

    In Asheville, North Carolina, the Blackman & Robertson Detective Agency faces a disturbing reality -- no clients. Sam Blackman finds inactivity intolerable. So when partner Nakayla Robertson suggests a mushroom hunt on the site of an historic, freed-...

  • Risky Undertaking

    Buryin' Barry Clayton - 6

    When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site expanding a local cemetery, the dual occupations of Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro, North Carolinaâ...

  • A Specter of Justice

    A Sam Blackman Mystery - 5

    When private detective Sam Blackman agrees to help his partner and lover, Nakayla Robertson, conduct a fundraiser for orphaned twin boys, he does so to ease his conscience. The boys' parents were killed in a courtroom shootout where Sam was the key w...

  • A Most Intelligent Murder

    The Singularity-the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cognitive abilities, with consequences no one can foresee, and only a handful of people understand. Rusty Mullins, ex-Secret Service, has never heard of th...



  • The Singularity Race

    The Singularity -- the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cognitive abilities, with consequences no one can foresee, and only a handful of people understand.Rusty Mullins, ex-Secret Service, has never heard of the...

  • Hidden Scars

    A Sam Blackman Mystery - 6

    When Asheville, NC, private eyes Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson are asked by an eighty-year-old client to investigate the suspicious death of her brother, they warn her there is little chance of success. Paul Weaver died nearly seventy years earl...

  • Secret Undertaking

    Buryin' Barry Clayton - 7

    Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's a...

  • Murder in Rat Alley

    A Sam Blackman Mystery - 7

    In this unusual spin on the classic spy novel, murder strikes from our wartime pasts... Iraq War veteran Sam Blackman with his prosthetic leg and his no-nonsense private eye partner Nakayla Robertson love their investigations which always carry a ...

  • Fatal Scores

    A Sam Blackman Mystery - 8

    A river gives up its dead, but not its secrets...Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson, private investigators in Asheville, North Carolina, are hired when a local environmentalist dies while monitoring water quality in the nearby Pigeon River. With no s...

  • Secret Lives

    2023 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE, SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD * APPLE BOOK OF THE MONTH SELECTION"A high energy foray into cryptocurrency and government corruption." -- First Clue"This light and lively series launch introduces 75-year-old Ethel Fiona Cre...

  • The Secret of FBI File 100-3-116

    The summer of 2020. COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire. Racial reckoning and Confederate monuments fuel nationwide protests. And Asheville, North Carolina, is not immune.When Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson see an elderly man knocked to the pavem...

  • Dangerous Women

    "A bewitching political thriller." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"Ethel looks like Marple but acts like Marlow." -- Kirkus ReviewsIn a case deciding the future of clean energy, everything hinges on how the chief justice of Supreme Court wi...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark de Castrique has published 27 books.

Mark de Castrique does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dangerous Women, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Mark de Castrique, Dangerous Undertaking, was published in May 2003.

Yes. Mark de Castrique has 2 series.
Author Series
Top Authors in Science Fiction Romance
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe