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Mark Ayre

Goodreads Author

Born

in Reading, The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.markayrewriting.com/

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Genre

Suspense, Thriller, Horror

Influences

author:Dean Koontz, author:Stephen King, author:Harlan Coben

Member Since

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An avid writer since crafting a moving story of a penguin trying to find his way home (sadly no longer in print) when he was a mere six years old, Mark has started hundreds of novels and written millions of words.

Recently learning how to curb his imagination and actually get something done, he now writes character-driven suspense thrillers, often with supernatural elements.

Like all great authors, he writes about himself in the third person, as though he has enough money to afford a publicist.

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Average rating: 4.1 · 1,230 ratings · 67 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors

	Her Last Request (Alex Harper #1) 3.94 avg rating — 719 ratings — published 2023 — 2 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 Stranger (Abbie King, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2021 — 5 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
	His First Mistake (Alex Harper Mysteries #2) 4.34 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2023	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
	Your Lies Exposed (Alex Harper Mysteries #3) 4.18 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2023	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
	Our Fatal Ambition (Alex Harper Mysteries #4) 4.33 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2023	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
	He Will Deceive (Alex Harper #5) 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2023	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 Black Sheep's Shadow (James Perry Book 1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2018 — 2 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
	If She Cries (Alex Harper #6) 4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2024	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
	Hide and Seek (Hide and Seek, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Fire and Smoke (An Adam and Eve Thriller Book 1) 3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings	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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Chapter Eighteen

This entry is part 18 of 18 in the series But Not Forgotten (Sample)But Not Forgotten – A Gripping Murder Mystery

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“I think I’m your sister. Our father is missing.”

After receiving a call from the sister he didn’t know existed, private investigator Barty Symonds travels to a village in the beautiful New Forest to find the father who abandoned him years ago.… Read the

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“The ache in his heart intensified as though it were connected to hers via an invisible rubber band that tightened the further apart they grew, desperate to ping them back together.”
― Mark Ayre, Her Last Request

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