Murderer: On Your Mark

by Ian Marsh

Brighton, 1974: Mark, a trendy, young university lecturer, finds himself at a crossroads. His current lover and former student Justine seems to be growing restive, and he desperately casts around for a way of holding onto her. Constantly short of money and envious of his contemporaries' greater earning power, he wonders whether an answer lies with his wife's wealthy, irritating, but conveniently ageing parents.Based on a re-working of the notorious Arthur John Waite case in New York in the early twentieth century and updated to the 1970s, On Your Mark combines a gripping thriller with an acute, unwavering portrait of an intelligent, apparently decent man whose greed and innate sense of superiority allow him to take a turn towards a sociopathic villainy.

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About the author

Dr Ian Marsh has been a university lecturer in criminology for many years. In that context, he has published numerous academic books on crime and justice, crime and the media and, more generally, sociology. Based on his experiences as an academic criminologist, he has recently started writing fictional books and his first crime novel, Murderer on your Mark, was published in December 2015.

Reviews

[Roland Marchal]

A fairly well written tale about greed and a double murder in the late 70s' You can't really fall out with it but it holds few surprises. Fairly enjoyable but probably not memorable.

[Sadie Lewis]

A run of the mill thriller,but enjoyable. Nice easy reading.