Martin Edwards

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The first of Martins eight novels, All the Lonely People, was nominated for the CWAs John Creasey Memorial Dagger and introduced lawyer Harry Devlin. Martin has also written a stand-alone, Take My Breath Away, and completed The Lazarus Widow by the late Bill Knox. His short stories are collected in Where Do You Find Your Ideas? and he has edited 14 anthologies. His ten non-fiction books include Urge to Kill, a study of homicide investigation. He has contributed many essays to reference books such as The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing. The author lives in Great Britain. http://www.martinedwardsbooks.com/

Books by Martin Edwards at Poisoned Pen Press

Arsenic Labyrinth, The low res cover

The Arsenic Labyrinth

After 10 years, Guy—a drifter with a taste for deception—has returned to Coniston in England’s Lake District. A local journalist, Tony di Venuto, is campaigning to revive interest in the disappearance of Emma Bestwick, and Guy [...] Read More →

Cipher Garden, The low res cover

The Cipher Garden

Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor while working in a garden in Old Sawrey, a lovely village in England’s Lake District. Soon it is Warren who is dead murdered with his own scythe. The [...] Read More →

Coffin Trail, The low res cover

The Coffin Trail

What is meant as a fresh start in the English Lakes District begins to reek of buried secrets…. Oxford historian and TV personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a [...] Read More →

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The Hanging Wood

Twenty years ago, a teenage boy, Callum Hinds, went missing in England’s Lake District. His uncle was suspected of having done the boy harm and interviewed by the police. When he committed suicide close to his [...] Read More →

Serpent Pool, The, low res cover

The Serpent Pool

DCI Hannah Scarlett is determined to uncover the truth behind Bethany Friend’s mysterious drowning in the Serpent Pool. But Hannah’s distracted by a new sergeant with a troublesome reputation, a new house, and new cause to [...] Read More →

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Waterloo Sunset

A notice announcing that Harry Devlin died suddenly on Midsummer’s Eve arrives at the office of his law firm one June day. Harry isn’t happy to read it especially as Midsummer’s Eve is less than a [...] Read More →

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