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Paul Finch

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Paul Finch is a former cop and journalist, now full-time writer. Having originally written for the television series THE BILL plus children's animation and DOCTOR WHO audio dramas, he went on to write horror, but is now best known for his crime / thriller fiction.

He won the British Fantasy Award twice and the International Horror Guild Award, but since then has written two parallel series of hard-hitting crime novels, the Heck and the Lucy Clayburn novels, of which three titles have become best-sellers.

Paul lives in Wigan, Lancashire, UK with his wife and children. ...more

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Humble apologies for the long delay in posting on here. There are very good reasons for this, which I’m not yet at liberty to discuss in full, but I can’t wait for that day to arrive. In the meantime, it’s still an announcements day today. A few things are coming up, both of which I’m a little stoked about. I also have more thumbnail book reviews for you, a bunch of dark fiction titles that

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	Stalkers (DS Heckenburg, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 3,625 ratings — published 2013 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sacrifice (DS Heckenburg, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 2,476 ratings — published 2013 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing Club (DS Heckenburg, #3) 4.13 avg rating — 1,857 ratings — published 2014 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island 3.45 avg rating — 1,785 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Man Walking (DS Heckenburg, #4) 4.14 avg rating — 1,426 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strangers (Lucy Clayburn, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 1,514 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ashes to Ashes (DS Heckenburg, #6) 4.18 avg rating — 1,360 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunted (DS Heckenburg, #5) 4.21 avg rating — 1,198 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death’s Door 3.77 avg rating — 1,091 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: Hunter's Moon 3.67 avg rating — 1,009 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Paul Finch wrote a new blog post Festival season approaches, and book news Humble apologies for the long delay in posting on here. There are very good reasons for this, which I’m not yet at liberty to discuss in full, but I Read more of this blog post »
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“Hatfield grinned. ‘Dorothy, but she told me to call her Dot.”
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“Heck shrugged, grinned.”
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“Heck, aka Detective Constable Mark Heckenburg,”
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