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Mark Pryor

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Mystery & Thrillers, Crime

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Mark Pryor is a former newspaper reporter from England. He moved to the US in 1995 and subsequently spent 16 years working as a prosecutor with the Travis County District Attorney's Office, in Austin, Texas. He is now a partner at the law firm of Cofer & Connelly, in Austin.

His upcoming book DIE AROUND SUNDOWN is the first in a new series of historical mysteries set in Paris during WW2. It will be published August 16, 2022, by St. Martin's/Minotaur.

Mark is also the author of the Hugo Marston mystery series, set in Paris, London, and Barcelona. The first in the series, THE BOOKSELLER, was a Library Journal Debut of the Month, and called "unputdownable" by Oprah.com, and the series has been featured in the New York Times. Mark also wrote the ...more

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	The Bookseller (Hugo Marston, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 6,513 ratings — published 2012 — 28 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 Paris Librarian (Hugo Marston #6) 3.75 avg rating — 3,161 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
	The Crypt Thief (Hugo Marston #2) 3.73 avg rating — 2,957 ratings — 13 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 Blood Promise (Hugo Marston #3) 3.96 avg rating — 2,002 ratings — 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
	The Button Man (Hugo Marston #4) 3.82 avg rating — 1,814 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The Book Artist: A Hugo Marston Novel 4.01 avg rating — 1,602 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	The Reluctant Matador (Hugo Marston, #5) 3.96 avg rating — 1,517 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Sorbonne Affair (Hugo Marston #7) 3.90 avg rating — 1,505 ratings — published 2017 — 7 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
	Die Around Sundown (Inspector Henri Lefort, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 1,469 ratings — published 2022 — 10 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 French Widow (Hugo Marston Book 9) 4.15 avg rating — 1,062 ratings — published 2020 — 6 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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The Beach and the (Prison) Bars: letting go of stress, guilt, and regrets. But not the empathy, hopefully never that.

This past week was a tough one.

Sure, turning 58 was part of it but that just means I made it another year, and I'm assuming 60 is the new 40, so that's all good.

You see, I spent my birthday battling it out in a felony jury trial in Travis County. I was defending a client (I'll call him John) I'd worked with since I joined the firm, someone I've known for more than three years now. And while the r

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Mark Pryor answered Dale's question: Will there be a Hugo Marston book 10? I love the series. Basically, yes! I just turned the book in to my editor. It will be out next year with a new publisher, still finalizing the title. Hugo will be leaving his position at the US Embassy and opening a bookshop in the Marais, and will continue his adventu See Full Answer
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“If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.”
― Mark Pryor, The Bookseller

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“If peace had a smell, he thought, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.”
― Mark Pryor, Bookseller, The: The First Hugo Marston Novel

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“Oscar Wilde’s comment about being able to resist everything except temptation.”
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