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PETER TONKIN

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Writing as: Peter Tonkin

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According tothe bio on his website: "Peter Tonkin attended the Queen’s University, Belfast, 1969 – 75, where he studied with Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Bernard MacLaverty and Ciaran Carson; and directed Ciaran Hinds in Hamlet.  He published his first novel, Killer, to international acclaim in 1978.  Since then he has divided his time between writing and teaching.  He has published 37 other novels including the Master of Defence series of Elizabethan murder mysteries and the 30-book Mariner series of action-adventure-thrillers.  Since retiring from teaching, he has been preparing a series of thrillers set in Ancient Rome.  He is pictured here preparing to attend a Literary Evening at Trinity College, Oxford, of which he is a Benefactor."



Series Books
 
The Queen's Intelligencer Shadow of the Axe (2021)
  Shadow of the Tower (2022)
  Shadow of Treason (2023)
 
Caesar's Spies The Ides (2016)
  After The Ides (2017)
  Cicero Dies! (2018)
  The Road To War (2019)
  Death at Philippi (2020)
 
Other The Action (1996)
  The Anger of Achilles [Trojan Murders] (2021)
  Benin Light [Richard Mariner] (2008)
  Beware of Greeks [Trojan Murders] (2020)
  Black Pearl [Richard Mariner] (2013)
  Blind Reef [Richard Mariner] (2015)
  The Bomb Ship [Richard Mariner] (1993)
  Cape Farewell [Richard Mariner] (2006)
  The Coffin Ship [Richard Mariner] (1989)
  Dark Heart [Richard Mariner] (2012)
  Dead Sea [Richard Mariner] (2012)
  Deadly Impact [Richard Mariner] (2014)
  The Fire Ship [Richard Mariner] (1990)
  A Head for Murder aka One Head Too Many [Tom Musgrave] (2002)
  Hell Gate [Richard Mariner] (1998)
  High Water [Richard Mariner] (2000)
  High Wind in Java [Richard Mariner] (2007)
  Ice Station [Richard Mariner] (2011)
  Iceberg [Richard Mariner] (1994)
  In the Shadows (2019)
  The Journal of Edwin Underhill (1982)
  Killer (1979)
  The Leper Ship [Richard Mariner] (1992)
  Mariner's Ark [Richard Mariner] (2015)
  Meltdown [Richard Mariner] (1996)
  A Midwinter Murder aka The Hound of the Borders [Tom Musgrave] (2003)
  The Pirate Ship [Richard Mariner] (1995)
  The Point of Death [Tom Musgrave] (2001)
  Powerdown [Richard Mariner] (1999)
  The Prison Ship [Richard Mariner] (2010)
  The Red River [Richard Mariner] (2010)
  Resolution Burning [Richard Mariner] (2006)
  River of Ghosts [Richard Mariner] (2009)
  The Ship Breakers [Richard Mariner] (2007)
  The Silent Murder aka The Silent Woman [Tom Musgrave] (2003)
  A Stage for Murder [Tom Musgrave] (2018)
  Thunder Bay [Richard Mariner] (2001)
  Tiger Island [Richard Mariner] (1997)
  Titan 10 [Richard Mariner] (2004)
  Vengeance at Aulis [Trojan Murders] (2020)
  A Verse To Murder [Tom Musgrave] (2019)
  Volcano Roads [Richard Mariner] (2009)
  Wolf Rock [Richard Mariner] (2005)
  The Zero Option (1997)