A Place to Bury Strangers

Written by Mark Dawson

Narrated by Simon Vance

A breathtaking, twisty adventure, A Place to Bury Strangers is the second Atticus Priest mystery.

A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Priest and the two of them trace the bone to a graveyard in the nearby village of Imber. But the village was abandoned after it was purchased by the Ministry of Defence to train the army, so why have bodies been buried in the graveyard since the church was closed?

At the same time, Atticus is approached by a single dad who needs his help to track down his missing daughter. Atticus takes on the case and finds himself battling a London gang who are selling their drugs in Salisbury and a host of witnesses who don't seem to be telling him the truth.

Atticus and Mack deal with the fiendishly complex case and unpick a conspiracy that cuts to the heart of the English establishment-while dealing with their own feelings for one another.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Jun 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781705228586

Mark Dawson

Mark Dawson has worked as a lawyer and now writes full-time. His John Milton series features a disgruntled assassin who aims to make amends for the crimes in his past. The Beatrix Rose series features the headlong fight for justice of a wronged mother – who also happens to be an assassin – against the six names on her kill list. The Isabella Rose series continues the story as Beatrix’s daughter finds herself pulled into an international conspiracy. Mark lives in Wiltshire with his family.

Reviews for A Place to Bury Strangers

[ben thomas · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this book, but could do without the love interest byline. Atticus is the modern Sherlock Holmes archetype with his deductions, I like the twist in the plot.