Tony Black

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2012
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

DI Bob Valentine

1 - Artifacts of the Dead (May-2015)
2 - A Taste of Ashes (May-2016)
3 - Summoning the Dead (Aug-2017)
4 - Her Cold Eyes (Apr-2018)

DI Rob Brennan

1 - Truth Lies Bleeding (Oct-2012)
2 - Murder Mile (Dec-2013)

A Doug Michie Novel

1 - The Storm Without (Apr-2013)
2 - The Inglorious Dead (Sep-2014)

A Gus Dury Crime Thriller

1 - Paying for It (May-2013)
2 - Gutted (May-2013)
3 - Loss (Dec-2014)
4 - Long Time Dead (Dec-2013)
5 - Wrecked (Nov-2019)

Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • His Father's Son

    Australia is the Lucky Country, and Joey Driscol knows it. It's a far cry from his native Ireland, but he believes this is the place he and his wife can make a new life and forget the troubles of the past. And for a time, they do just that. There's g...

  • Truth Lies Bleeding

    DI Rob Brennan - 1

    Four teenagers find the mutilated corpse of a young girl stuffed into a dumpster in an Edinburgh alleyway. Who is she? Where did she come from? Who killed her and why? Above all, where is the baby to which she has obviously recently given birth? Insp...

  • RIP Robbie Silva

  • The Storm Without

    A Doug Michie Novel - 1

    Still recovering from the harrowing case that ended his police career, Doug Michie returns to his boyhood home of Ayr on Scotland's wind-scarred west coast. He hopes to rebuild his shattered life, get over the recent failure of his marriage and s...

  • Gutted

    A Gus Dury Crime Thriller - 2

    When the gangland owner of a pit bull that killed a three-year-old girl is found gutted on an Edinburgh hill Gus Dury is asked to investigate, and soon finds himself up to his neck in the warring underworld of the city’s sink estates. Amidst illega...

  • Paying for It

    A Gus Dury Crime Thriller - 1

    Gus Dury once had a high-flying career as a journalist and a wife he adored. But now he is living on the edge, a drink away from Edinburgh’s down-and-outs, drifting from bar to bar, trying not to sign divorce papers. But the road takes an unexpecte...

  • Long Time Dead

    A Gus Dury Crime Thriller - 4

    Gus Dury is back on the drink. While in hospital after a hit-and-run accident, his best friend, Hod, asks him to investigate the ritual, on-campus hanging of an Edinburgh University student. The murder victim's mother is a high-profile actress, who h...

  • Murder Mile

    DI Rob Brennan - 2

    In a cold, windswept field on the outskirts of Edinburgh, lies the brutally mutilated body of a young woman. As DI Rob Brennan looks at the tangled mass of limbs and blood, he feels his heart freeze.Like Fiona Gow five years earlier, this girl has be...

  • Last Orders

    Last Orders is an exciting and thrilling anthology of short crime fiction, featuring the return of Edinburgh investigator Gus Dury. In the title story Dury receives a mysterious letter on expensive paper but is hesitant to take the case - but he need...



  • The Ringer

    For small time Glasgow drug dealer, Stauner, life is sweet when he meets Monique. With free board and an unpaid servant at his beck and call, the daily trip to the bookies is his toughest chore. It could all be too good to be true, but the misogynist...

  • The Sin Bin

  • The Inglorious Dead

    A Doug Michie Novel - 2

    A long hot summer in the west of Scotland sees temperatures rising higher than usual throughout the traditional marching season. When the murder of a young loyalist is added to the mix, cool heads are in short supply. RUC-veteran Doug Michie, tasked ...

  • The Last Tiger

    A Tasmanian-set tale about a family of Lithuanian immigrants and the secrets they bring with them to Van Dieman's Land

    It's 1910 and 12-year-old Myko and his family have fled the Czarist occupation of their native Lithuania for the ...

  • Loss

    A Gus Dury Crime Thriller - 3

    Gus Dury is a changed man. He is off the Edinburgh streets and back with estranged wife, Debs. He has promised her that he won't get involved in any more dodgy cases which the police can't or won't solve. And above all, he's off the drink. In his poc...

  • Artifacts of the Dead

    DI Bob Valentine - 1

    The discovery of a dead banker sends shock waves through the sleepy coastal town of Ayr. And it's up to DI Bob Valentine, recently back on the force after his near-fatal stabbing, to find the killer. But leads are hard to find and the pressure is on ...

  • A Taste of Ashes

    DI Bob Valentine - 2

    When DI Bob Valentine returns to duty after a narrow escape with death, he is faced with the discovery of a corpse on a kitchen table with a horrific neck wound and a mystery surrounding the victim's missing partner and her daughter. It's all too clo...

  • Bay of Martyrs

    True Detective set on Australia's South Coast. Clay Moloney, a cynical reporter with a regional Australian newspaper, is expecting an easy Sunday at work when the body of a young woman washes up at the Bay of Martyrs. The death is an inconvenience fo...

  • Summoning the Dead

    DI Bob Valentine - 3

    With his near-fatal stabbing almost a memory, DI Bob Valentine is settling back onto the force, until one of Ayrshire's darkest secrets is unearthed. The skeletal remains of a boy, his hands and feet cable-tied, turns up during routine drainage works...

  • Her Cold Eyes

    DI Bob Valentine - 4

    She's missing, and her mother knows who to blame. But nobody's listening. When the case falls to DCI Bob Valentine, however, he has no choice but to listen. Haunted by the girl's cold gaze and her mother's hurt, the detective soon finds himself at th...



  • Wrecked

    A Gus Dury Crime Thriller - 5

    Edinburgh's Gus Dury is back ... and so are his troubles. After swearing off the drink and reviving his flagging writing career on a webzine, Dury stumbles across a missing person's case that he can't say no to. He thinks the job's a slam-dunk--on...

  • Slings & Arrows

    A strangled prostitute, laid out on a prize-winning fairway. A stabbed pensioner, found wasting away in a rubbish-strewn house. And a brutally murdered banker, his expensive car sabotaged en route to a plush home. All three have suffered the slings a...

  • The Lock-In

    The Lock-In is the first new collection of short fiction by critically acclaimed author Tony Black in a decade. This thrilling anthology of crime fiction stories by the eight-times Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Dagger nominated author of the Gus D...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tony Black has published 22 books.

Tony Black does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lock-In, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Tony Black, His Father's Son, was published in June 2012.

Yes. Tony Black has 4 series.
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