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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excited to share that ‘A Murder of Detectives’ will be published in the UK by Zaffre in April ‘27. Welcome to Combe Wyndham!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A Murder of Detectives may be a village murder mystery, but it’s deffo not cosy. Sooooo glad I can finally shout about the fact my new book will be out next year with Bonnier in the UK, in the US with Harper Collins, and others elsewhere! Hugely excited for people to visit Combe Wyndham!

Article from Publishers Marketplace announcing recent deal for US rights for A Murder of Detectives

Tourist information leaflet for Combe Wyndham, north Devon, with a map of key locations from the book

A postcard from the fictional Combe Wyndham in north Devon, showing the famous church, cliffs, cliff railway, and harbour

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Saw Weezer last night in the centre of my grim little northern hometown, a week after Deftones played the same venue, where I saw Korn last year, with Limp Bizkit and playing the year before, among others! 15 yr old me would never believe The Piece Hall would become the best music venue in the UK!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Wait I haven’t read all the PD James books, which one is the new series based on? 😄

A screenshot from Safari showing the description for the new Dalgliesh series inexplicably starring Kevin Bacon as a former FBI agent

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Currently using sophisticated leak detection equipment to find why there’s always a puddle in the footwell. Somewhere in the engine bay is leaking through the firewall.

A hose balanced on top of a rusty Ford Capri to find where the bastard’s leaking

The nightly 2.9 Cossie 24 valve nestled in the engine bay of a Ford Capri.
2.0 servo and Land Rover MC, MX5 rad

Absolutely boss 70s gold stripes up the back of a Capri

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Behold, gratuitous Ford Capri content as the sun’s out, and it’s time for her to wake up.

An ‘85 Ford Capri in shades of worn maroon and rust, with her bonnet open. Gold stripes mean she’s a boss, and a subtle Cosworth badge on the chin spoiler warn against trying owt.

Original 70s Ford Capri door interior in various shades of ‘grandma’s rotary phone’, with custom door winders made of skateboard wheels.

The rusting bonnet of a proud old Euro muscle car, a Ford Capri with aluminium Mustang bonnet pins and BMW 3 series headlights

Custom centre console in a Ford Capri, in shades of ‘Norovirus’

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Leakey’s is excellent, I visited when up there researching what became my debut novel, and scored Agatha Christie and Len Deighton first editions, and an amazing Bond US library edition, among others! Hence that book name-checks Leakey’s!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

An excellent bookshop. I visited when up there researching what became my debut novel, and bought Agatha Christie and Len Deighton first editions, and an amazing Bond US library edition. So when my book was published, I name-checked Leakey’s!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

📣 Important announcement for those that don’t have a Bookseller account! 🎉

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Strangely these pictures also captured my imagination, of ‘X - The Unknown’ - the Quatermass film that wasn’t!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I still have the copy that was sat on my parents’ shelves

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I’m still on with ‘Northerners: A History’ by Brian Groom. Fascinating stuff!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

So, from an in-joke with my editor, I ended up with proper artist drawn covers. I’ll always be hugely grateful to my editor and publisher, and also the artist, that I have the coolest covers, and three amazing posters on my wall.

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

For Black Run I tried to specify the clothes but thought, you know what, here! I sent a pic of myself in my own hoody and jeans and jacket. So… that’s a sexy, murderous version of me. 😄 Only thriller with Adidas Shelltops on the cover? They also included my actual car, a 2007 Audi RS4 Avant.

Thriller book cover with a guy in a Barbour motorbike jacket and Adidas Shelltop sneaks advancing menacingly. Oh he has a gun so watch out. In the background is an aging container ship, and on the right side the French Alps, and an Audi RS4 Avant racing across the snow. There’s a beautiful one-eyed skier getaway driver watching on, based on the awesome German driver Sabine Schmitz

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

We all then agreed that the previous two books needed rejacketing, and new matching covers were commissioned for those by the same artist! For Anthrax Island I was suggested characters, and had input on exactly how the Ford Capri should look! Only book with an X-Pack Mk2 Ford Capri on the cover?

New but vintage style book cover of a guy in a hazmat suit, pondering a killer at large, which in the background a mysterious figure watches. In the foreground a Ford Capri races past.

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

They liked it, and a few weeks later they’d commissioned an artist to draw an original cover in the style of 70s action thrillers. (By the amazing The Red Dress) I asked for the Mil helicopter and the UAZ van, and the Soviet hotel in the background is based on one I stayed in!

New book cover in a vintage style with a bearded dude in a parka carrying a gun, running from explosions, Soviet military trucks, snowmobile henchmen, the works

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Sorry, I may be biased but I have the best book covers in the genre 😄 When I sent in my final manuscript for my third book, I stuck on a vintage style cover I’d mocked up as a joke to my editor, using old Alistair MacLean books, among others:

Vintage book cover displaying an Arctic scene, a dude in a parka with a rifle, explosions in the distance, jet planes, all the best 70s thriller stuff.

Vintage book cover showing an Arctic scene with a bearded hunky dude with a rifle, snowmobile henchmen, explosions, etc

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

As a massive Uncanny fan I was introduced to the concept of sick buildings by @dannyrobins.bsky.social, so this looks super interesting! As for me, I’m still on seasonal short horror!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I can’t lie, like 50% of his Lego used to be mine so I massively enjoy it 😁 yup, very good for the mind. I’m not fancy enough for the big Star Wars sets though. His room is a tip cos he’s mid-build 😄 but he now has at least seven big IKEA tubs full. It’s basically a Lego room.

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I also got this for Christmas, and will be diving in this afternoon, Shrewsbury is looking perfectly misty today.

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

In Shropshire for Christmas, and my view is something straight out of a folk horror. Clearly the gallows tree from an MR James short on the horizon there.

An overcast morning photo of rolling dismal, drizzle-swept fields, split by an undulated dirt lane stretching over the horizon, passing beneath the skeletal boughs of a dark tree. In the distance the lane passes alongside an ancient gallows tree.

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Currently writing folk horror so immersing myself in all sorts! I’ve started commuting again so binging these podcasts. Cheers, queued up and ready!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Ours arrived yesterday, also lots of reasons why we chose one, but given what I also write about I must be outside the target demographic too!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Wife’s new MINI arrived. Size comparisons a ‘24 MINI Cooper e vs ‘85 Ford Capri !

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

But what if the opposite is true!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

…as is 77 North. I mean, just look at it! And there’s a festive shootout in frosty North Yorkshire on the eve of Christmas!

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Your seasonal reminder that Black Run is a Christmas book. There’s a ski resort, Christmas trees, ice sculptures, biscuits, hot chocolate, smoking weed to Christmas songs, murders in a grotto, and snipers singing Band Aid, and Christmas Eve Maccies, I dunno what more you want.

Book cover for ‘Black Run’ by D.L. Marshall, which features an Alpine scene and a skier

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It’s that most magical time of the year when I gear up for this year’s watching of North Sea Hijack. Or Ffolkes, if you’re in The States

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

There was a project in Halifax taking pics of properties being demolished around that time but unfortunately this street was either missed or is missing from the collection in the archives (not unknown). Th is is my period map showing the view, and the chimneys for reference which helped me locate.

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m not much of a cheesiest tbh but even if I was it wouldn’t belong on steak. In truth we walked about for hours but never actually managed to find Philadelphia. It was just weird offices and buildings. We did find a small mall near the bell for a pizza pie and the obligatory fridge magnet.

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Doing a Gerald Eastland. If you’ve seen the Jonathan Creek episode ‘Ghosts Forge’ then it’ll make absolute perfect sense. 😉

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It’s now that thing of like, does one take it further by recommending their own on *this* post, or is that too far?

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Daniel Marshall @dlmarshall.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Off to play battle of the bands, no I am not taking questions at this time

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