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About
My first novel as Alex North, The Whisper Man, was a Sunday Times, New York Times and international bestseller. It has been translated into over 30 languages and is currently being adapted for film.
It was followed by The Shadow Friend and The Half Burnt House.
My fourth novel, The Man Made of Smoke, was published in May 2025.
Before writing as Alex North, I studied Philosophy at the University of Leeds, worked in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy there, and published ten crime novels as Steve Mosby, winning the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2012.
I live in Leeds with my wife and son.
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Novels
novels
Daniel Garvie was only a child himself when he saw the lost little boy. And because he was too scared to help him, one of the world's most notorious serial killers got away.
Years later, Dan has a successful career as a criminal psychiatrist, unpicking the reasons behind the very darkest of human behaviours. But when his father disappears, Dan is forced to return to the small island where he grew up. A place where all the ghosts and monsters he thought he'd left behind him remain all too real.
It might be a chance for him to find redemption.
Or he might be walking straight into a trap...
If you could see the future ... would you want to?
As a teenager, Katie Shaw failed to protect her little brother, Chris. Years later, Chris goes missing, and Katie has the chance to make amends for what happened back then.
The police are investigating the brutal murder of a philosophy professor: an expert on determinism and free will. The case leads them to Chris, and the terrible item he stole from the dead man's half-ruined house.
But there are other, more dangerous people looking for Chris. And if Katie can't make sense of the past and present and find her brother in time, she and her family might have no future at all...
If you could kill someone in a dream, would you do it?
25 years ago, Paul’s friend Charlie Crabtree did something truly evil and then vanished off the face of the earth. Returning home now, Paul is forced to revisit the events of that terrible day.
Because a copycat killer has struck. Paul’s mother claims there's something terrifying in the house with her. And a shadowy figure is following Paul. As the old nightmare begins again, Paul has to confront the two questions he’s never been able to answer.
What really happened on the day of that impossible murder?
And can he somehow stop it from happening again?
If you leave a door half-open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken…
Fifteen years ago, a serial killer known only as ‘The Whisper Man’ wreaked havoc on the sleepy village of Featherbank.
But with the killer behind bars, the village feels like a safe haven for Tom and his young son Jake to make a fresh start.
Until another boy goes missing.
Could the killer still be out there? And can Tom protect his son from becoming the next victim?
Previously published as Steve Mosby
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Dark Room
For DI Andrew Hicks, solving a murder is logical: your first suspicions are usually right.
So when the body of a young woman is found, Hicks immediately turns his attention to the most likely culprit – her possessive ex-husband. But when a second body is found, killed in near identical circumstances, Hicks is forced to think again about his suspect.
As the death toll starts rising, Hicks realises he’s dealing with something much darker and more irrational than he’d imagined. A serial killer is at large – one who revels in chaos. To stop the senseless murders, Hicks must find a way to crack the killer's code.
But what if his own darkness is standing in the way?
Dark Room was previously published under the name Steve Mosby as Dark Room in the UK and The Murder Code in the US.
Amazon UK: paperback | ebook
Waterstones: paperback
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Contact
I'm represented by Sandra Sawicka at Marjacq.
TV and film rights are handled by Leah Middleton at Marjacq.
I don't use social media very much these days. I'm not on X/Twitter at all: if you find an active account there pretending to be me then it's fake. You can find the accounts that I do actually use - with varying degrees of activity - here:
Bluesky: alexnorth.co.uk
Instagram: writernorth
Threads: @writernorth
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