Works by
David Harsent
(Aka David Harsent, David Lawrence)
(Poet, Scriptwriter, Writer)
[December 9, 1942 - ]

Writing as David Harsent

As Editor

• Raising the Iron: Poems for the Palace Theatre Watford (2004, UK)

• Another Round at the Pillars: A Festschrift for Ian Hamilton (1999, US, UK)

Fiction

• The Wormhole (In progress)

• From an Inland Sea (1985, US, UK)

Music

• Gawain: A Libretto (1991, US, UK)

Plays

• Psychodrama (In development)

Poetry

• Selected Poems 1969-2005 (2007, US, UK)

• The Hut in Question (2007)

• Legion (2005, US, UK) -- Winner 2005 Forward Prize for Best Collection

• Marriage (2002, US, UK)

• A Bird's Idea of Flight (1998, US, UK)

• The Potted Priest (1997, UK)

• News from the Front (1993) CORRECTED TITLE

• Storybook Hero (1992)

• Selected Poems (1989, US, UK)

• Dreams of the Dead (1984, US, UK)

• Mister Punch (1977, US)

• After Dark (1973, US, UK)

• Truce (1973, US, UK)

• A Violent Country (1969, US, UK)

• Tonight's Lover (1968, US, UK)

Translations

• Sprinting from the Graveyard (1997, US, UK) by Goran Simic with David Harsent (Translator)
  Versions of poems by Goran Simic

• The Sorrow of Sarajevo (1996, US, UK) by Goran Simic with David Harsent (Translator) and Robert McNab (Illustrator)

Writing as David Lawrence

Crime Fiction

Stella Mooney Series

1. The Dead Sit Round in a Ring (2002, US, UK)
   "Four people sitting in a ring. Two men and two women. All of them dead." Thus begins a case that will take DS Stella Mooney from the fabulous flats of Notting Hill to the decidedly tougher side of town. It's no wonder Stella feels like she's going round in circles. And with a personal life in crisis (her live-in lover has yet to be told he has serious competition), nightmares that wake her at 3 a.m., and a vodka habit, Stella's trying to keep it together long enough to catch the killer. The problem is, the nearer she gets to solving the case, the closer the rest of her life comes to falling apart...  Aka Circle of the Dead (US,  UK.

2. Nothing Like the Night (2003, US, UK)
   Once she had been beautiful; now she was eight days dead, her body slashed repeatedly. At first, she's just Jane Doe of Notting Hill, then DS Stella Mooney finds a suspect. But while he is in custody, another body is discovered, butchered in the same way. It seems that Stella and her team are looking for that most dangerous of creatures: someone who kills to feed a terrible appetite. In fact they are up against something even more terrifying. There are two people involved; and one of them - the dominant one - is a woman ...

3. Cold Kill (2005, US, UK)
   The brutalized corpse of a young woman has just been discovered. When Robert Kimber walks into a Notting Hill police station and confesses to the murder, it's an open-and-shut case--just what the police want this close to Christmas. But Stella has her doubts. And if their suspect didn't commit the murder, who did? Someone without a conscience. Someone who will tap into Kimber's disturbed mind. Someone who needs an apprentice for the dark business he has planned....

4. Down into Darkness (2007, US, UK)
   The naked body of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside. Scrawled across her back are the words "DIRTY GIRL."     Detective Stella Mooney is faced with a murder as baffling as it is chilling. With no means to identify the victim and no apparent motive, the case is blocked, until a man is found on a bench by the river, his throat cut back to the vertebrae. And, as before, the killer has left a trademark comment: "FILTHY COWARD."     Stella and her team can see there's a connection--but what? One victim is a young girl, maybe one of the hookers who work the Strip; the other, a researcher for a prominent and controversial member of Parliament. More evidence is needed. And soon enough it comes: another death; another message....

See also:

• Biography: David Harsent (2007, US)
  An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team -- Digital