Ed Gorman

A searingly honest description of a mind haunted and eventually paralysed by the terror of post-traumatic stress disorder....

For small-town, Iowa lawyer, Sam McCain, the year 1965 is not a sweet one. His father is gravely ill. His elitist boss is just coming out of rehab....

Sam has now returned to his hometown of Black River Falls, where he works as a lawyer and part-time investigator for the court of the snobbish but amusing Judge Esme Whitney....

This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman's talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres....

A hippie commune has invaded Black River Falls, but the majority of the townspeople believe that the bohemians have the right to stay. Not everyone, however....

Jeff and Mindy McKay are young, attractive, and willing to stop at nothing to have it all - even if it means murdering Mindy's little sister, Jenny....

Ex-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....

Two beautiful Indian women are found dead with their noses cut off - an old Indian practice to punish infidelity....

Her name was Crimson...and she was a legend. A beautiful pirate queen who plundered the 16th Century Caribbean sea by day and confronted voodoo and vampires during the steaming tropical nights....

Peeps takes movie reviewing to new heights of viciousness. On this prime-time TV show, two caustic critics look at the hits and misses among the new movies, trading wits, insults - even punches....

Roger Daye, a stockbroker whose wife suddenly left him, has changed his appearance in hopes of changing his life for the better....

Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A Catholic priest has been found half-naked and dead in a seedy motel room, with his tongue cut out....

He is a mild-mannered academic turned serial killer being hunted for crimes he doesn't recognize as his own. She is a TV anchorwoman losing the ratings game....

Cobey Daniels had it all. He was rich, he was young, and he was the hottest star in the country....

Twenty-five years ago, in a small Iowa town, an asylum for the criminally insane burned to the ground, killing inmates and employees....

Tom Prine figured that a stint as deputy in a backwash town like Claybank would give him a nice rest....

Former FBI agent and psychological profiler Robert Payne is on the trail of a serial killer....

The antique telephone sat in the darkness in the attic. Dust and cobwebs obscured its once gleaming surface....

Jack Dwyer, ex-cop turned amateur actor, is delighted when his agent lands him a role in a local production of Long Day's Journey into Night. But the real drama starts when the director is murdered....

Learn the truth behind the mask of Hollywood in these 10 bizarre tales of dreams and dream weavers, movies and movie-makers....