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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Nick Shaman

1 - A Good Year For The Roses (1988)
2 - Romeo's Tune (1990)
3 - Gun Street Girl (1990)
4 - Take the A-Train (1991)
5 - The Turnaround (1992)
6 - Zip Gun Boogie (1992)
7 - Hearts of Stone (1992)
8 - Falls of the Shadow (1993)
9 - Ashes by Now (1993)
10 - Pretend We're Dead (1994)
11 - Paint It Black (Sep-1995)
12 - Find My Way Home (1996)

Book List in Order: 21 titles



  • The First Nick Sharman ThrillerNick Sharman is nobody's favourite person. Ex-cop, ex-doper, invalided out of the Met after a stray bullet in the foot saved him from an investigation into the missing evidence from a drugs haul.The cops don't like him....



  • Third in the Nick Sharman crime series, from the Spillane of Brit Noir


    The Second Nick Sharman ThrillerWhen you're an ex-cop and an ex-doper scratching a living as a private investigator in the unromantic streets of south London, you take any work you can get. Even a dreary little debt collection job for some toe-rag of...



  • As hardboiled as they come, the fourth in the Nick Sharman series 


    Sharman is coerced into assisting the drug squad in the seventh in the series

    Life as a private detective has proved too much for Nick Sharman, and when a chance run-in with a couple of young thugs secures him a job as a part-time b...



  • The Fifth Nick Sharman ThrillerDisliked by Old Bill and villains alike, South London private eye Nick Sharman attracts trouble like the proverbial magnet.When businessman James Webb asks Sharman to find out who murdered his sister, her husband and tw...



  • Sixth in the Nick Sharman crime series

    It's time for another rock and roll case. American rock gods Pandora's Box are cutting their new album in London but someone has wiped the tapes and one of the band is in hospital after an OD. En...



  • Sharman's ninth finds him asked to clear an unfairly convicted man's name
    Nick Sharman stumbles home with two exotic dancers, Sandi and Mandi (aka Tracey and Dawn), which is fun for him until he gets a phone call from the past that ruins...



  • In Sharman's eighth hardboiled adventure finds him back in the PI game, investigating a radio station Working in a bar has proved too dangerous for Nick Sharman, so he’s back in the private investigation game. His first job, looking for a lost High...






  • Sharman's getting married, and down at the nick they're taking bets on how long it's going to last. His new wife, Dawn (the ex-stripper), isn't going to settle for little woman status - she's got her eye on those mean streets. And Sharman's going to ...



  • Nick Sharman - at last - is living a life of married bliss with his new partner (and ex-stripper) Dawn. The bad boy has settled down, and the booze and the drugs and the guns are but a happy memory - unlike his ex-wife Laura, now married to respectab...



  • Harry Stonehouse had been a cop, a good one -- and straight, unlike Nick Sharman. After taking early retirement he’d landed a job at a security firm. Now he’s dead, and his wife wants Nick to find out who killed him and why. Nick’s been taking ...



  • As the new millennium approaches, it is the end of the world for John in more ways than one, for his wife and child are dead, and society lies in ruins as a plague devastates the world. When a pregnant young girl enters his life, he finds he has more...



  • Could it be the end for Sharman?For seven years, ex-cop Nick Sharman has lived in 'exile' on a Caribbean island with no UK extradition treaty - his life of luxury funded by the proceeds of a bank robbery where he was the last man standing. Then a pho...



  • Spanning 40 years of love, life, and villainy, this epic novel is a major tour de force from an author at the peak of his powers, the Spillane of Brit Noir

     

    Once upon ...



  • Working in a bar has proved too dangerous for Nick Sharman, so he's back in the private investigation game.His first job, looking for a lost Highland terrier called Prince, shouldn't be too demanding; a quick visit to the owner's ex-husband and a men...



  • They had so much on Sharman that he couldn't move without their say-so. Stuff he'd done for himself, and things he'd done for them, too. His name was ruined on both sides of the fence. So they came up with one more job, the big one. When he found out...



  • Nick Sharman's daughter Judith has returned to Scotland and nothing will tempt him back into the business again... unless it's Ray Miller. Miller, a Lottery rollover double-jackpot winner, wants to find the wife who left him. This should be a simple ...



  • Sharman's Christmas with his daughter Judith starts with the worst of gifts: news that his ex-wife, Laura, her new husband and their baby son have been killed in a bomb explosion on a plane.Sharman and Judith seek what little consolation they can fro...






  • Poor old Nick Sharman may be dead and gone, but there’s still life left in the old dog yet â€" as Mark Timlin shows in this collection of stories about his memorable detective.Follow Sharman as he rocks through the underworld of 90s London and beyo...



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    Family trouble! Growing old quietly was never really an option for Nick Sharman. When he takes on a job for a prosperous Manchester businessman looking for his runaway teenage daughter, Meena, he should, perhaps, have known better. He finds himself i...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Timlin has published 21 books.

Mark Timlin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Reap the Whirlwind, was published in February 2021.

The first book by Mark Timlin, A Good Year For The Roses, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Mark Timlin has 1 series.