Mills, Mark 1963-

The savage garden by Mark Mills( Book )
48 editions published between 2006 and 2014 in 11 languages and held by 2,096 libraries worldwide
Assigned to write a monograph about a famous sixteenth-century garden, aimless young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting visits the enigmatic garden only to discover clues that the woman to whom the garden was dedicated may have been murdered, a finding that points to a related and more recent killing

Amagansett by Mark Mills( Book )
53 editions published between 2004 and 2009 in 12 languages and held by 2,025 libraries worldwide
A major debut novel that tells a mesmerizing story of love, death, and redemption in a small Long Island fishing community in 1947, Amagansett is a novel as sweeping and haunting as the landscape of sky and sea it evokes. Beautifully and powerfully told, it announces the arrival of a gifted writer who skillfully weaves together a delicate love story, a brutal murder, an unforgettable evocation of a place and time, and characters shaped by the epic forces of nature, class, war, and memory. Conrad Labarde is a first-generation Basque fisherman who casts his nets in the treacherous waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Living alone among the high dunes on the east end of Long Island, he is kept company only by the ghosts of war. He is a working-class man in a region sharply divided between those who farm and fish this isolated finger of land year-round, and the wealthy, who claim it every summer for seaside escape. But in postwar America, the landscape is changing quickly. And lives, too, will change dramatically when Conrad's nets pull in the body of a beautiful young woman, seaweed twined in her hair. Deputy Chief of Police Tom Hollis must traverse the shoals of class and community in order to determine if a crime has been committed and, if so, by whom. From the privileged family whose dead daughter was hiding a torturous secret, to the determined cop who seeks the truth, to the fisherman who is always one step ahead of him-they, and everyone else in Amagansett-will be touched by what the waves cast up that day

The information officer : a novel by Mark Mills( Book )
29 editions published between 2009 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,797 libraries worldwide
Max Chadwick is the British officer charged with manipulating the news on Malta in 1942 to bolster the population's fragile esprit de corps. When he learns of the brutal murder of a young island woman, along with the evidence that the crime was committed by a British officer, he knows that the Maltese loyalty to the war effort could be instantly shattered unless he can solve the crime quickly

House of the hunted : a novel by Mark Mills( Book )
6 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and held by 732 libraries worldwide
Having retired to the French Rivera in 1935, former intelligence operative Tom Nash finds his respite broken when someone tries to kill him in his sleep, and must pretend to live the normal life of a retiree as he tries to flush out those who want him dead

House of the hanged by Mark Mills( Book )
18 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 498 libraries worldwide
France, 1935: At the poor man's end of the Riviera sits Le Rayol, a haven for artists, expatriates and refugees. Here, a world away from the rumblings of a continent heading towards war, Tom Nash has rebuilt his life after a turbulent career in the Secret Intelligence Service

The savage garden by Mark Mills( Sound Recording )
17 editions published between 2007 and 2015 in English and held by 424 libraries worldwide
Assigned to write about a famous sixteenth-century garden, Cambridge scholar Adam Banting visits the garden only to discover that the woman to whom the garden was dedicated may have been murdered, a finding that points to a more recent killing

The information officer [a novel] by Mark Mills( Sound Recording )
15 editions published between 2009 and 2013 in English and held by 414 libraries worldwide
In 1942 Malta, military officer Max Chadwick is charged with ensuring a Maltese island in the Mediterranean stays in the hands of the British Empire. During a devastating Axis bombing campaign, a Maltese woman is murdered, supposedly by a British soldier. Forced to investigate in secret due to fears that the killing would lower morale around the island, Max begins to uncover a most delicate conspiracy with consequences reaching far beyond the war

Wachten op Doggo by Mark Mills( Book )
20 editions published between 2014 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 387 libraries worldwide
No-one ever called Dan a pushover. But then no-one ever called him fast-track either. He likes driving slowly, playing Sudoku on his iPhone, swapping one scruffy jumper for another. He's been with Clara for four years and he's been perfectly happy; but now she's left him, leaving nothing but a long letter filled with incriminations and a small, white, almost hairless dog, named Doggo. So now Dan is single, a man without any kind of partner whether working or in love. He's just one reluctant dog owner. Find a new home for him, that's the plan. Come on ... everyone knows the old adage about the best laid plans and besides, Doggo is one special kind of a four legged friend ... and an inspiration --

The reckoning by Paul McGuigan( visu )
9 editions published between 2003 and 2013 in English and held by 361 libraries worldwide
Set in 14th century England, the story involves a priest who leaves the church after committing adultery. He falls in with a troupe of traveling actors. The group ends up in a small town where a mute woman is accused of witchcraft and murder. Drawn to the woman, the troupe re-creates the events in hopes of drawing a crowd and solving the crime

The long shadow by Mark Mills( Book )
7 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in English and held by 239 libraries worldwide
Ben Makepeace, a screenwriter, is recently divorced, with a young son to care for. So when he's invited up to Stoneham Park in Oxfordshire to meet someone who wants to bankroll his latest script, he jumps at the chance. Victor Sheldon is a hedge fund billionaire yet when Ben meets him he's bemused, for Victor is none other than old schoolfriend Daniel, last seen some 25 years ago. Victor is eager to introduce him to the various occupants of his Palladian home and Ben can't quite believe the great stroke of good fortune. But history can cast a long shadow, and soon Ben finds himself caught up in a vicious endgame with roots buried deep in the past of his childhood