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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2011
  • Latest Book:
    March 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Dave and Mariska Caper Novel

1 - Dark Times (Dec-2011)
2 - Red Die (Apr-2012)
3 - Darke Revenge (Nov-2012)
4 - Butterfield's Hate (Apr-2013)
5 - Twin Strike (Dec-2013)

Nearworld Trilogy

1 - Nearworld Realized (Dec-2014)
2 - Nearworld Bereft (Dec-2014)
3 - Nearworld Achieved (Dec-2014)

Book List in Order: 43 titles



  • Welcome to the City Of Sinners where corruption reigns, where cops and politicians are bought and do as they are told, where the weather is awful, the rain pours, the seamog rolls; where the traffic is static, the smells atrocious and where violence...



  • A serial killer is on the prowl in the Panhandle of Oklahoma, and he has been killing for years. He thinks he's a kind of superhuman, uncatchable, untraceable, never apprehended, never charged with any crime. The killing is investigated in Ci...



  • On a quiet Saturday evening in Sacramento, California, as they relax at home, 15-year-old twins Kathryn and Michael Angel witness the murder of their father. They manage to temporarily overcome the murderer and rush from the house, but return to fin...



  • Captain R.F.C. Hall, war hero, intelligence Officer, serial killer. He begins killing before the First World War, carries on through the Second War, teaches his new wife how to kill, then his daughter, Florence Elizabeth. She teaches her son. A dy...



  • An serial arsonist is on the loose and is killing many people. A cop broken by personal tragedy is brought back in the hope of resurrecting his career. Chrissie Holland is given the task of aiding him, while Mariska Masekova helps them both. She i...



  • Welcome to Hill's Maryport, the most corrupt, polluted, crime-ridden place on the peninsula. Meet the bad guys, The Drill Bandit, the porno photographer, the man who beats his wife and rapes her, all the bad guys who are really, really awful, then m...



  • In 1965, there were over one-hundred-thousand sailors in the British Royal Navy, and yet they did not have a war to fight. There were no significant wars for the Navy to fight during the whole decade. So what did they all do? Well, here is a story...



  • Mariska Masekova and Dave Lewis are back!! Following their adventures in DARK TIMES, they now find themselves investigating a series of hit-and-runs that cops think are a series of unfortunate accidents, but which Dave and Mariska think are murders....



  • Detective Sergeant Georgina 'George' Easton of Norfolk, England, CID is investigating the disappearance of an American Airman from an American Base. While she searches for him, and the easterlies blow, and ice forms, and snow threatens, her personal...






  • A third adventure for Dave Lewis and his beautiful boss Mariska Masekova. Young girls are being discovered poisoned to death, they are naked and showing signs of torture. Mariska is asked to investigate one of the murders and she puts her Senior In...



  • This is a sweeping novel of love and life and War. It begins in 1918 with the birth of the three main characters, Joe, Evna and Leslie. It shows the poverty of the day, as the three try their best of lift themselves out of the squalor in which they...



  • A fourth crime adventure for Dave Lewis and Mariska Masekova. Butterfield is an ex-cop who Dave helped get dismissed from the force, and when Butterfield tells his mother this, she drops in a dead faint. Butterfield's heart beats with hate for Dave...



  • This is the Fifth and Final crime caper novel with Dave Lewis and Mariska Masekova. The novel concerns the twins, Analaise and Victoria Harcourt, who live in Dave's house and who work for Mariska in her Private Detective Agency. When they were you...



  • Jaq Bennett is both dead and alive - turned that way by an ancient Majician - and in that state, surrounded by the fourteen close friends who she trusts, including the love of her life, Meliak, the Lost King, she fights back against the god of evil, ...



  • Golath had made his aims crystal clear - with Brother Lagen deceased he will conquer Nearworld with all the evil at hand, which is considerable, as he is the god of evil. Jaq Bennett, the slim small female from another place is dragged more and more ...



  • Nearworld Realized is Book One of the Nearworld Trilogy concerning the life and times of Jaq Bennett, a Private Detective in this world but in Nearworld she is The Investigator and that world expects her to apprehend a psychopathic killer who murders...



  • Five years ago Venus Preston disappeared walking home from school. She's never been seen, found, or heard of since. The cop who investigated her disappearance, Sergeant William Halt of the Dover Police, made a promise to her father, Miles, that he...



  • Juliana Andrews is the daughter of Doctors', she is clever and regarded as a school swot; she is sixteen-years-old and she has been abused since she was fourteen. At the age of fifteen, she was convinced to become a tester for heroin. Two months afte...



  • This book marks the return of the epic Western; this tale of the remarkable Arthfael Evans; the Welsh-born boy miner; the New York Gang Member; the gunfighter, the protection officer and finally, and most famously, the U.S. Marshal and the man who al...






  • Thomas Ellis, under various names, has been murdering young girls for almost fifty years. He is proud of the fact that he has never been suspected, never been investigated and questioned only once following his very first killing. The victim was Mary...



  • This is a novel about male homosexuality. It mostly takes place in 1962, a time when any sexual contact between men was a criminal offence and the participants could be jailed; it was a time when the police considered male homosexuals as being sub-hu...



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    1 of a series of hard-hitting British crime novels of approximately 50,000 words, one day reads, concerning the investigations of Detective Sergeant Andy North, 30 years old, six feet tall and slim. This first investigation is about the abduction...



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    2 in the A-Z of Andy North crime series. Andy North is back at work after two years following the abduction and torture of his wife Zoe but he discovers he has been demoted to a Detective Constable and his best friend Ellie Tonbridge has been app...



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    This is the third novel in the Andy North Crime Series. A fifteen-year old girl is found naked and face down in a river in Marshland Woods; an obese Carer is discovered shot in a cheap motel; an deaf old lady is shot dead in her own home; and all...



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    Danny, Lenny and Me, are Private Investigators of the Exceptionally Weird, and not much comes more weird than a flesh-eating monster in an English river and Morgan la Fey, the psychopathic half-sister of King Arthur stepping out of a cave in North Wa...



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    The Fourth Andy North Crime Novel by the brilliant S.D. Gripton -a little longer than the 50,000 words it should be-sends Andy and his indomitable Detective Sergeant Ellie Tonbridge on more hard-bitten adventures, including a pimp who sells young...



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    John Snead is a Private Investigator, he is also an ex-junkie and dealer from Manchester who is reborn with help from his Detective Sergeant lover. He lives in a semi-luxury caravan with his wife, who is ill, and he trades in the quiet towns and vill...



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    Dome 1113 is one of many Domes around the world that saved mankind from destruction. They were invented and built by the Chinese, who saved mankind. Each Dome holds 500,000 Humans and Humanoids and Geel of The Squad is one Free-Thinking human who is ...



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    This is the 5th novel in the Andy North Crime Series - part of the Alphabetical Thrillers. It is early November and heavy snow comes to the High Peaks of England. Astrid Kristiansen, the County Assistant Pathologist, a Norwegian who doesn't l...






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    Emma Jane Dance is fifteen-year-oid a bullied schoolgirl, who is just beginning to develop feelings for a boy, who lives in a poverty-stricken town in North Wales, but who is an excellent swimmer. She doesn't think there is anything special about her...



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    Tieran has befriended Keelaa and Gloria and the three work as one as they wander the land until captured by the human wolves of Buovo, King of the Barbarians, who imprisons them and demands they fight in his arena. They remain in captivity for almost...



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    Outside the back door of the house-on-the-hill lurks a cave, known as The Beast, who has to be fed one girl a year to fend off an evil spell cast on the family 198-years-ago. Inside it is a throat into which the girls are dropped; to where the family...



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    Andy North and Ellie Tonbridge are back in their 6th crime novel. This time they are investigating the practice of sex for rent - where students and others pay their rent by sexual favors to their landlords. But what happens if that practice is ab...



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    The 8th novel in the Andy North 50,000 word series, this one concerns domestic abuse and the consequences of it. Two schoolboys are sliced as they walk home from school, witnesses say that the attackers were slim and dressed in grey hoodies with hood...



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    New Android (with) Nuclear Capacity. In other words 100,00 pretty androids who can mix with any society who are actually nuclear bombs. Doctor Good, the inventor of the NANCs, oversaw the building of them but when he retires to the jungle, he builds ...




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    Odaat Reeva is a foul-mouthed rebel; she is anti-authoritarian, a mildly psychopathic, 30-year-old who has been tortured by Clerc Falare for most of those years, her parents allowing and encouraging it. Exiled from Earth to the planet of New Hope wit...



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    A wife is murdered - the husbands leaps in front of a train. Murder/Suicide. An open and shut case for the police. But not for Jeffrey Madison. He believes it was something else - he believes it is a double murder. And he should know. For he is an un...



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    Suzanne Bevan and Jayne Harris are long-time lovers who sleep with a very occasional male. They have never slept with the same man until they sleep with Adams, who is a lowly security guard, not at all like their usual type of male. But he saves Jayn...






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    Twins She and He have been held prisoner since birth, their mother was the result of terrible assault, the twins being the result, the boy alabaster white and white haired, the girl dark, dark haired, He has been taught to fight, She taught to cook, ...



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    The world is overrun by machines, thousands of humans are kept in captivity for experimental reasons, and they are monitored day and night. OR33140 is one of the machines that carries out that monitoring, being an Observer/Recorder. The machine has b...



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    Adams, the wealthy ex-S.B.S. sailor, Suzanne Bevan, MI5 Agent and her lover Jayne Harris, Met Detective Inspector, re-unite to investigate the murder of a homomsexual male in Manchester; the killer is said by friends to be an MI5 Agent. The three are...



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    Celine and Archie Manton; wife and daughter of Inspector James Manton, are killed in a terrorist explosion in an unnamed city in the North West of England. Manton is broken. He resigns from the Police Force, sells the family home, sells all the furni...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

S.D. Gripton has published 43 books.

S.D. Gripton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Right Life Left Life, was published in March 2021.

The first book by S.D. Gripton, City Of Sinners, was published in December 2011.

Yes. S.D. Gripton has 2 series.