The popular game show "Celebrity Circle" is something of a graveyard for show-biz mediocrities, so Tobin, the five-foot-five movie critic with the fiery hair and the equally fiery temper, is less than...

It's been five years since David Gerard got out—sprung from the courtroom in a hail of bullets that left nine dead, and left his brother Roy in jail under sentence of death. Now, Roy faces electrocution,...

Ed Gorman's mystery short stories have a flavor found nowhere else among contemporary writers. His tales have an amazing breadth of style and plot—classical detection, private eye stories, biter-bit tales...

There was ANNA—the town's bad girl, mistreated and abused, who made the ultimate sacrifice to get her revenge …THE FORSAKENThe FORTUNE TELLER—whom the town ridiculed, but not for long …THE FORSAKENPATRICK—the...

An assassination attempt on a U.S. congresswoman spells danger for Dev Conrad.Political consultant Dev Conrad is doing his best to help secure a re-election victory for congresswoman Jessica Bradshaw,...

Award-winning author Ed Gorman is back with political consultant and troubleshooter Dev Conrad, in this riveting sequel.When Dev Conrad agreed to work with Congresswoman Susan Cooper, member of a prominent...

As a seasoned political consultant, Dev Conrad approaches working on the reelection campaign of Illinois Senator Warren Nichols with trepidation. The senator's best friend and adviser has just committed...

Political consultant Dev Conrad knows that helping Congressman Michael Robards to get re-elected is going to be tough. Robards' liberal voting record stands against him, and his staff seem resentful of...

Twenty-five years ago, in a small Iowa town, an asylum for the criminally insane burned to the ground, killing inmates and employees. The fire was set by Paul Renard, a sexual psychopath who escaped the...

Jack Dwyer is a former cop who got the acting bug after he was cast in a local public safety commercial. He started acting lessons, quit his job, and applied for his private investigator's license (in...

ONE MORNING KATE EVANS OPENED HER DOOR TO A DYING FRIEND …… AND INVITED TERROR INTO HER LIFE.His last breath held the secret of his murder. Just one word: "key." Kate thought she understood. It was the...

Screaming and violent, little Jenny had never behaved as such — until The Babysitter. As the teenager entered the house, the grandmother was aware of her striking, disturbing beauty — a disturbing beauty...

In Indiana the condemned die at midnight. Killers like Peter Tapley, a twisted man who lived in his mother's shadow and took his hatred out on trusting young women.Six years after Tapley's execution,...

A research biochemist receives a package from a fellow scientist containing profiles on six people suffering from an unknown disease, plus tissue samples for study. Both scientists are found dead shortly...

TO BE "DIFFERENT" IS TO BE DEADTurned into two armed camps by the accidental release of a deadly virus, the United States has become: the Federation, where the Normals live; and the Zone, a forbidden...

“The kind of hero any small town could take to its heart.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York TimesA hippie commune has invaded Black River Falls.  While the majority of the townspeople believe that the bohemians...

1965: America’s favorite small-town detective must solve the murder of two old friends against the backdrop of America’s cultural revolution.For small-town Iowa lawyer Sam McCain the year 1965 is not...

When we last saw Sam McCain he had been drafted, along with his National Guard unit, to fight the war in Vietnam. But Sam's military career ended in boot camp when he was accidentally shot in the head...

"I have never read anything that so fully and perfectly captured the personal experience and the personal aftermath of war" P. J. O'RourkeA young, devil-may-care Englishman reporting on the Soviet war...

Previously published as GUN TRUTHA Spur Award-winning AuthorTom Prine figured that a stint as deputy in a backwash town like Claybank would give him a nice rest. Until, in the space of just a few days,...

Former FBI agent and psychological profiler Robert Payne is on the trail of a serial killer..A 12 year old girl has been murdered and mutilated, and the detective assigned to the case wound up dead. Now...

Written with Patricia Lee MacomberThe antique telephone sat in the darkness in the attic. Dust and cobwebs obscured its once gleaming surface. Wires hung limply from its rusted innards. It should have...

A BLAST FROM THE PASTEx-cop, security guard and sometime actor Jack Dwyer feels a familiar buzz when, after fifteen years, he sees Karen Lane, his old high school flame. But things are going so well with...

Two beautiful Indian women are found dead with their noses cut off - an old Indian practice to punish infidelity - in this suspenseful second mystery by best-selling author Ed Gorman. The mutilation murders...

When two teenage boys befriend and escaped bank robber--because the robber reminds the boys of their idol, Robert Mitchum--the boys set in motion a chilling chain of events that will teach them about...

Roger Daye, a stockbroker whose wife suddenly left him, has changed his appearance in hopes of changing his life for the better. His longing for Amy, a childhood flame, is rekindled when he sees her at...

Cobey Daniels had it all. He was rich, he was young, and he was the hottest star in the country. Then there was that messy business with the teenage girl...and it all went to hell for Cobey.But that was...

Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A Catholic priest has been found half-naked and dead in a seedy motel room, with his tongue cut out. Ex-FBI profiler Robert Payne has been called in to investigate by his childhood...

A novel of gripping psychological suspense.A mother and daughter...a lonely stretch of road...a detour into terror. When their car breaks down, Amy Byrnes goes for help, leaving her teenage daughter Jane,...

Jack Dwyers, ex-cop turned amateur actor, is delighted when his agent lands him a role in a local production of Long Day's Journey IntoNight. The real drama starts, however, when Michael Reeves -- the...