Mark Richard Zubro

NEW BOOKS THIS FALL

New Books This Fall - 2011

Black and Blue and Pretty Dead Too - a new Paul Turner gay Chicago police detective mystery

Available in ebook and print format From MLR Press, independent bookstores, and online retailers. This is my tenth book in the Paul Turner police procedural series. In it the gay Chicago detective and father of two sons gets caught in a tangle of intrigue and corruption. A brutal Chicago cop is found murdered at a gay leather festival. Turner, plus his police department partner, Buck Fenwick are assigned the case. Through a rising tide of danger, they need to find the truth among police corruption and cover-ups. Some top cops and A-list leather queens are among those whose lies and fears drive the web of desperation and deceit that Turner and his partner must unravel.

A new short story in the anthology Windy City Queer. This is a short story featuring a new sleuth, Mike King, a gay private detective.

The short story, Duped in Grit, features a new character, Mike King, a gay private eye, appears in the anthology Windy City Queer.

Paul Turner mysteries

Black and Blue and Pretty Dead Too - 2011
Hook, Line, and Homicide - 2007
Nerds Who Kill - 2005
Dead Egotistical Morons - 2003
Sex and Murder.Com 2001
Drop Dead - 1999
The Truth Can Get You Killed - 1997
Another Dead Teenager - 1995
Political Poison - 1993
Sorry Now? – 1991

Tom and Scott series

Schooled in Murder - 2008
Everybody's Dead But Us - 2006
File Under Dead - 2004
Here Comes the Corpse - 2002
One Dead Drag Queen - 2000
Are You Nuts? - 1998
Rust on the Razor - 1996
An Echo of Death - 1994
The Principal Cause of Death - 1992
The Only Good Priest - 1991
Why Isn’t Becky Twitchell Dead? - 1990
A Simple Suburban Murder – 1989

Thriller written with Barbara D'Amato and Jeanne Dams
Foolproof - 2009

Short Stories

"Duped in Grit" in Windy City Queer - 2011
"Tea for Two" in Homicide Hosts Presents - 1996
"Mrs. Talucci's Dinner" in Murder for Mother - 1994
"Never On Santa" in Santa Clues - 1993
"Next Year Kankakee" in Cat Crimes III - 1992