Fatal Depths Art Marvik mystery thriller

Wednesday 4 May and Art Marvik is on a quest to discover the truth behind his parents’ deaths in an underwater explosion in the Straits of Malacca in 1997. The stakes are high. Will he live to expose a shocking revelation and bring his parents killer to justice?

No one knows why Professor Dan Coulter, an oceanographer, and Dr Eeirka Marvik, a marine archaeologist, were diving in the Straits of Malacca when tragedy struck.  For over twenty years Marvik has done his best to put aside thoughts of his parents’ deaths which left him at the age of seventeen in the brief care of a guardian before enlisting in the Royal Marines. 

His career as a Commando and a Special Boat Services officer gave no room for sentimentality or reminiscences.  He believed what he had been told, their deaths were an accident.  Then a young marine archaeologist, Sarah Redburn, is murdered and Marvik’s boss, Chief Superintendent Crowder of the National Intelligence Marine Squad, claims her death is connected with Marvik’s parents.  Marvik can’t see how that could be possible but when he discovers a notebook and computer disk in Sarah’s belongings with the name of his parents’ last research vessel written on it in his father’s hand, which is subsequently stolen from his safe deposit box, he has no option but to believe Crowder.

With the help of his former Marine colleague, Shaun Strathen, an intelligence officer and computer expert, Marvik embarks on a journey that could very well be his last. His quest for the truth takes him on a dangerous and deadly trail of abduction and murder. It soon becomes clear that the computer disk holds the key to a shocking secret that a ruthless killer is determined must never be revealed.

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 "It's a gripping yarn. One you can't put down same as the previous ones.  There must be a follow up." (Authors note, there will be, working on it now.)

"Loved it. Read all four books over two weeks. Couldn't put them down. Its all SO very believable. I can't wait to read more adventures of Art and Shaun. Highly reccomend this series."

"Complex plot that unfolds in layers. It kept my interest as you think you’ve solved it and then more information is revealed and your mind changes."

"A good read, where is the next book?" (Authors note hopefully in 2025!)