From the twisted imagination of David Mark, author of the McAvoy series, The Zealot’s Bones is historical crime with a difference. Here's why you will want to read The Zealot's Bones.

From Hell, Hull and Halifax, may the Good Lord deliver us.

In 1849, Hull is a city forgotten and abandoned; in the grip of a cholera outbreak that sees its poorest citizens cut down by the cartload.

Into this world of flame and grief comes Meshach Stone, a former soldier, lost upon his way. He’s been hired as bodyguard by a Canadian academic hunting for the bones of the apostle Simon the Zealot, rumoured to lie somewhere in Lincolnshire.

Stone can’t see why ancient bones are of interest in a world full of them . . . but then a woman he briefly loved is killed. As he investigates he realises that she is just one of many . . . and that some deaths cry out for vengeance.