Atticus Priest · Book 1
The House in the Woods
- Published
- 1 January 2020
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN-13
- 9781658969048
- Type
- novel
About this book
Mark Dawson opened the Atticus Priest series in 2020 with The House in the Woods, introducing the former rising star of Wiltshire Police's murder squad now working as a Salisbury private investigator after a very public error ended his career. The 496-page opener sets up his uneasy, unofficial partnership with DCI Mackenzie Jones, his former colleague.
Its place in Atticus Priest
The House in the Woods is book 1 in the Atticus Priest series. It is followed by A Place to Bury Strangers. See the full Atticus Priest reading order.
Atticus Priest was a rising star of Wiltshire Police's murder squad until a very public error ended his career; a few years on he's working as a private investigator in Salisbury, using an obsessive, borderline-photographic memory to solve the cases everyone else has given up on. Mark Dawson's series opens with The House in the Woods (2020) and repeatedly puts Priest in uneasy, unofficial partnership with DCI Mackenzie Jones, his former colleague, whose professional standing depends on staying at arm's length…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781658969048
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781705228579