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Taking Pity (Detective Sergeant McAvoy Book 4) by David John Mark is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Taking Pity (Detective Sergeant McAvoy Book 4) about?

The New York Times *hails David Mark’s police thrillers as “in the honorable tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and Ed McBain.” In Taking Pity, Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy returns for another darkly enthralling installment of this internationally acclaimed series.* It's been three months since Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy returned home, or to what was left of it after a horrific tragedy. All that remained was charred masonry, broken timbers, and dried blood--a crude reminder of the home invasion and explosion that tore his family apart. McAvoy's wife and daughter are safe, he's been assured; he just wishes he knew where they were. As McAvoy wrestles with his guilt, self-hatred, and helplessness, trouble persists in stormy Hull. Organized crime emerges as the city's latest threat, with two warring factions leaving plenty of bodies for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharaoh and her unit to clean up. Now more than ever, Pharaoh needs her sergeant to return to work and be a policeman again. She gives McAvoy a case that's supposed to ease him back into the game: a reinvestigation of a rural quadruple murder that was put to bed fifty years ago. But what was supposed to be a cut-and-dr

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Author
David John Mark
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9780399185748
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
True Crime, Fiction, Crime
Rating
4.3 / 5 (818 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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