page_title: Paul Finch
section_title: "Heck" novels
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Finch / "Heck" novels
caption_attribution_description: English: Buttermere Landscape modified by glaciers. View beyond the lake to Fleetwith Pike and Dale Head.
context_page_description: Paul Finch is an English author and scriptwriter. He began his writing career on the British television programme The Bill. His early scripts were for children's animation. He has written over 300 short stories which have appeared in magazines, such as the All Hallows, the magazine of the Ghost Story Society and Black Static. He also edits anthologies of Horror stories with the overall title of Terror Tales. He has written variously for the books and other spin-offs from Doctor Who. He is the author of the ongoing series of DS Mark Heck Heckenberg novels.
context_section_description: Stalkers (Avon Books 2013) ISBN 978-0-00-749229-9
  Sacrifice (Avon Books 2013) ISBN 978-0-00-749231-2
  The Killing Club (Avon Books 2014) ISBN 978-0-00-755125-5
  Dead Man Walking (Avon Books 2014) ISBN 978-0-00-755127-9
  Hunted (Avon Books 2015) ISBN 978-0-00-749233-6
  Ashes to Ashes (Avon Books 2017) ISBN 978-0-00-755129-3
  Kiss of Death (Avon Books 2018) ISBN 978-0-00-824398-2
  Detective Sergeant Mark Heckenberg, or "Heck", is a British Police Officer and a member of the fictional National Crime Group based at New Scotland Yard. The other constant character in the series is his immediate superior  Detective Superintendent Gemma Piper, with whom he has an on and off romantic relationship. In the first book - Stalkers - they investigate the "Nice Guys Club"; a highly secretive organised crime group that provide highly unpleasant sexual services to the very rich. Stalkers became a number one e-book bestseller, selling almost 150,000 copies across e-book and paperback. The second book - Sacrifice - concerns a group that is killing people in a highly graphic way on particular days of the year, such as being burned alive on Guy Fawkes Night.  Sacrifice was the most pre-ordered ebook in HarperCollins’ history, with more than 12,825 pre-orders.
  The third book in the series was to have been Hunted and the first two chapters of this appear at the end of Sacrifice. However Paul Finch's publishers Avon Books wanted the return of the "Nice Guys Club" sooner than he had intended. Accordingly, they do in The Killing Club. At the end of this book Heck transfers out of the National Crime Squad. The fourth book in the series is now Dead Man Walking, which is now followed by Hunted. Dead Man Walking is set in the Lake District.
  The books are published as eBooks and paperback originals by Avon Books.  In 2014 The Sun newspaper  gave away free eBooks of Stalkers to its readers. The first 6 chapters of The Killing Club were made available free to download onto Amazon Kindle.
caption: Buttermere in the Lake District - renamed Witch Cradle Tarn in Dead Man Walking
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