Atticus Priest · Book 3
The Red Room
- Published
- 1 January 2023
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN-13
- 9781802795882
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Red Room, the third novel, appeared in 2023 -- skipping 2022 entirely -- at 480 pages, keeping Priest's uneasy partnership with DCI Mackenzie Jones at the center of Dawson's straighter English procedural mystery.
Its place in Atticus Priest
The Red Room is book 3 in the Atticus Priest series. It follows A Place to Bury Strangers. It is followed by All the Devils Are Here. 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 9781802795882