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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1999
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Alex Mavros

1 - A Deeper Shade of Blue (Sep-2002)
2 - The Last Red Death (Apr-2009)
3 - The Golden Silence (Jan-2004)
4 - The Silver Stain (Apr-2012)
5 - The Green Lady (Feb-2013)
6 - The Black Life (Dec-2013)
7 - The White Sea (Oct-2014)

Matt Wells

1 - The Death List (Jul-2007)
2 - The Soul Collector (May-2009)
3 - Maps of Hell (May-2010)
4 - The Nameless Dead (Mar-2011)

Quint Dalrymple

1 - Body Politic (Aug-1999)
2 - The Bone Yard (Aug-2000)
3 - Water of Death (Mar-2001)
4 - The House of Dust (Feb-2002)
5 - Blood Tree (Dec-2011)
6 - Heads or Hearts (Aug-2015)
7 - Skeleton Blues (Apr-2016)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Body Politic

    Quint Dalrymple - 1

    Edinburgh 2020: After years of rioting and chaos, during which time the United Kingdom was dissolved into dozens of warring city-states, Edinburgh achieves stability thanks to the Council of City Guardians and their vision of a new Age of Enlightenme...

  • The Bone Yard

    Quint Dalrymple - 2

    New Year's Eve 2021. The one night of the year when the guards are less vigilant. The perfect time for murder.

    Welcome to twenty-first-century Edinburgh: an oppressive, crime-free independent city state, run by the Council of City Guardians. ...

  • Water of Death

    Quint Dalrymple - 3

    Independent Edinburgh, 2025. Global warming has turned the summer into the Big Heat. With water strictly rationed, citizens are mindlessly devoted to two things: the year-round tourist festival and the weekly lottery (Grand Prize: a five-minute sh...

  • The House of Dust

    Quint Dalrymple - 4

    It's April 2028. Youth gangs roam the streets of independent Edinburgh, forcing the ruling Council of City Guardians to seek advice. Experts from the utopian university-state of New Oxford recommend a maximum security prison alongside the central to...

  • A Deeper Shade of Blue

    Alex Mavros - 1

    When Alex Mavros is asked to track down a missing woman, he jumps at the chance to leave the stifling heat of Athens. Travelling to the small island of Trigono, he soon realises that there is more than one mystery to be solved. How did a young couple...

  • The Golden Silence

    Alex Mavros - 3

    When half-Greek, half-Scots private investigator Alex Mavros is asked to trace a missing teenager, an immigrant of the former Soviet Union, he doesn't see any connection with the recent plague of violent killings afflicting Athens. As his search plun...

  • The Death List

    Matt Wells - 1

    Revenge is sweet -- unless you're the target Writer's block is nothing compared to the tale London-based novelist Matt Wells is now caught in. A chain of seemingly innocent e-mails from a devoted fan turns sinister when Matt discovers his correspo...

  • The Last Red Death

    Alex Mavros - 2

    A second chilling thriller featuring Alex Mavros - the new name in crime fiction IRAKLIS - a mysterious Greek terrorist group. A rogue offshoot of the communist party. At its head, a man with many names. An elusive master assassin who has been in exi...

  • The Soul Collector

    Matt Wells - 2

    Brutally targeted by the "White Devil" serial killer, crime writer Matt Wells knows what it's like to look evil in the face and survive. He's rebuilt his life--but with a disciple of his tormentor still at large, he has never stopped looking over his...



  • Maps of Hell

    Matt Wells - 3

    I fell into the deepest of holes. I am no one. I awake in a windowless room--naked, filthy, bruised, robbed of my every memory. I feel inexplicably drowned in a sea of hatred and rage. I...don't know who I am. But I know I must escape. This is ...

  • The Nameless Dead

    Matt Wells - 4

    Crime writer Matt Wells hasn't had much time for a career of late -- he's been too busy fighting for his life. And now he can't trust anyone, not even himself. His thoughts are not his own -- his subconscious has been infiltrated and a single word...

  • Blood Tree

    Quint Dalrymple - 5

    Independent Edinburgh, 2026. The birth-rate is down in the Council's 'perfect city' and gangs of disaffected kids roam the streets. A break-in at the former Scottish Parliament archive is rapidly followed by two gruesome murders, the victims mutil...

  • The Silver Stain

    Alex Mavros - 4

    Set against a glorious Greek background, the spellbinding new Alex Mavros mystery - Hired by a Hollywood film company to trace a missing employee in Crete, private investigator Alex Mavros is plunged into a vortex of hatred. The company is shooting a...

  • The Green Lady

    Alex Mavros - 5

    Set against a glorious Greek backdrop, the intriguing new mystery featuring half Greek, half Scots PI, Alex Mavros. Hired by the wife of one of Greece’s richest men to find her missing fourteen-year-old daughter, Mavros faces an uphill battle. But ...

  • The Black Life

    Alex Mavros - 6

    The story is told in alternating chapters, a narrative set in the present day and also a first person harrowing account of the persecution of the Holocaust years. Whilst it is an indictment of the wartime collaboration and subsequent profiteering to ...

  • The White Sea

    Alex Mavros - 7

    Alex Mavros enters a chilling world of power and corruption when he investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy Greek ship-owner Wealthy ship-owner Kostas Gatsos has been missing for several weeks, having been snatched from his luxury villa on the id...

  • Heads or Hearts

    Quint Dalrymple - 6

    Maverick ex-cop Quint Dalrymple returns to investigate a series of gruesome murders in a near-future independent Edinburgh. Independent Edinburgh, 2033. The Council of City Guardians has been forced to relax its grip on citizens and the borders a...

  • 1993- A Mother's Gift of Love

    This is the story of a young lady's journey to find the father she never knew. The book begins with her at the front door of her mother's old college friend breaking the news that he has a daughter. He denies his paternity saying that is an impossibi...

  • Heaven's Way

    Heaven's Way is a story of two men. One man is a highly successful professional athlete driven to success by a controlling father. He has every material possession in life a man could want yet true happiness seems to have eluded him. The other is a h...



  • Disgraced, Billy's Story

    Billy had it all. He was president of his school class, the high school basketball star, had six cheerleaders fighting over him, and drove a shiny new Corvette to school everyday. Then one day it all came crashing down. People said his family was jus...

  • Ahab and Jessie Bell

    Among the many stories of the Bible the story of Ahab's lust for the vineyard owned by Naboth is one of the darkest. We are introduced to the concept of an evil couple caught up in a religious cult who play by a different set of rules. We also find t...

  • The Other Martin Dempsey

    If you are searching for a biography regarding the decorated and esteemed American General, Martin Dempsey, then this is not the book for you. This is a book about the life's journey of a fictional physically afflicted teenager who shares the same na...

  • Skeleton Blues

    Quint Dalrymple - 7

    Ex-cop Quint Dalrymple discovers there is something very rotten in the independent city-state of Edinburgh in this near-future dystopian thriller. Edinburgh, spring 2034. The weather’s balmy, there’s a referendum on whether to join a reconstit...

  • Martin and Mary

    Martin and Mary is a sequel to The Other Martin Dempsey. The former faith based book told the story of Martin Dempsey, a crippled, deformed, and dwarfed teen who was isolated from all his classmates for more than eleven years because of the threats o...

  • Arrogance in Lincoln County

    Senior citizen, Andy Carter, while looking out his front door window sees his neighbor come home in a drunken rage and assault his wife. The next morning Andy finds his neighbor's two children asleep in his barn. They are too frightened of their dad ...

  • Arrogance and Deceit

    Arrogance and Deceit is comprised of two faith based novels about flawed heroes. Both of these novels were previously published in a simple screenplay style. This book combines the novel, DAVEY'S DECEPTION, which is based upon the earlier work DAVEY,...

  • 25 Years to the Unthinkable

    25 Years to the Unthinkable is a harrowing fictional journey into a disturbing future for American Christians. At the time of the writing of this short novel, the football protests were costing the NFL many dollars in ticket sales and lost advertisin...

  • The Strange Tale of Rory McSpade

    Rory McSpade was born with a mutated gene that caused him to look different from other people. Even as a child he had hair growing on portions of his face that are normally bare. He also had hair growing on the backs of his hands. This tall skinny re...

  • Making The Axe Head Swim

    Making The Axe Head Swim is a story of two intersecting lives. One is an inexperienced young pastor at a crossroads contemplating leaving his calling. The other used to be just a regular guy, a family man. After a series of heartrending tragic events...



  • Lowell Brantley DVM: A New Look At Life

    A teenage boy, an injured dog, an aging veterinarian with a broken heart, an ex-girlfriend with a new heart, and a man born on the wrong side of the tracks who succeeded in life with a big heart all come together under the teaching of a small town pa...

  • Casting Pearls

    The smell of beans baking in her oven transports a lady back to her teen years and a very special family reunion in her small hometown in a valley among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. God placed a very special burden on her heart as a gi...

  • Impolitic Corpses

    Quint Dalrymple investigates the strange disappearance of the Lord of the Isles in this gripping dystopian thriller. November, 2038. Scotland has been reunified and Edinburgh's thirty-year experiment with supposedly benevolent totalitarianism ...

  • Rayne Comes

    In a mythical world of shapeshifters, goddesses, swords, and sorcery, Con, a lone warrior, has spent generations protecting an ancient and deposed royal bloodline, but he's always known that there would come a time when his protection would no l......

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul Johnston has published 33 books.

Paul Johnston does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rayne Comes, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Paul Johnston, Body Politic, was published in August 1999.

Yes. Paul Johnston has 3 series.
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