Books by Edward Gorman and Complete Book Reviews

Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-312-00623-5
Gorman's fourth whodunit will appeal to devotees of Rough Cut and his other fast, raunchy, funny mysteries. In Manhattan, TV movie critics Tobin and Dunphy trade blows before the studio audience. Later Tobin is found red-handed but innocent, pulling
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Edward Gorman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0665-5
In 1957 perhaps the only thing worse than a new Ford Edsel is a new Ford Edsel with a dead body in the trunk. Veteran crime writer Gorman painstakingly evokes small-town America in the late '50s for this nostalgic prequel to The Day the Music Died....
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Edward Gorman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0569-6
There's a dead-on sense of time and place--February 1958 in small-town Iowa--in Gorman's latest, which, despite minor problems with plot resolution, makes an enjoyable start to a new series. Narrator Sam McCain, ""a young lawyer in a town that...
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-18108-6
St. Mallory's Catholic church connects a series of murders in this gripping mystery featuring former FBI psychological profiler Robert Payne (last seen in Hawk Moon, 1996). Now working as an investigator for a law firm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Payne...
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13980-3
The second appearance of psychological profile investigator Robert Payne, introduced in Blood Moon, is a two-dimensional, convoluted tale about similar savage killings in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, separated by 90 years. Payne finds himself assisting Cindy
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Edward Gorman, Author Deadline Press $35 (370p) ISBN 978-0-9631367-6-3
In this mixed bag of 20 stories and one novella, most of which have appeared in hardcover collections or SF and mystery magazines, Gorman (Prisoners and Other Stories), who describes himself as inhabiting ``the lower depths of American paperback...
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-312-10943-1
A former FBI agent tracks a serial child killer in this expertly wrought atmospheric mystery featuring a plot as convoluted as the loops and rolls its hero performs in his old biplane. After the suspicious death of the previous detective on the case,
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-95760-5
Set in a small Iowa town, mystery writer Gorman's latest concerns a former FBI agent hired to track a serial killer who takes little girls as his victims. (Mar.)
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-312-05482-3
Character and a sense of place are the strengths of this taut who-really-dunit by Gorman ( A Cry of Shadows ). Soft-hearted, sentimental private-eye Jack Walsh, 64, formerly a sheriff's detective, is called in to help clear the name of ex-con George
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Edward Gorman, Author M. Evans and Company $15.95 (130p) ISBN 978-0-87131-614-1
This slight, sorry western begins in 1901, when Septemus Ryan takes his 15-year-old nephew, James, on a combined coming-of-age and revenge trip. Septemus has tracked down the three men who killed his daughter, James's favorite cousin, during a...
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-312-04290-5
Gorman's short, undemanding mystery features detective Jack Dwyer (previously seen in The Autumn Dead ), who is hired by one of the owners of Avanti, a chic restaurant/nightclub in an unnamed American city, to deal with ``some problems'' ostensibly...
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Edward Gorman, Author M. Evans and Company $14.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-87131-553-3
The appeal of the 23 pieces here goes beyond the genre. With authors ranging from Max Brand to Loren D. Estleman, the tales are stolid, eerie, funny, bleak and moving. If some are sentimental (O. Henry's ``The Lonesome Road,'' Bill Pronzini's ``All...
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-312-02279-2
Gorman scores another hit with this witty, fast-paced mystery. Tobin ( Murder on the Aisle ), semipermanently drunk movie critic and ex-TV star, is the guest panelist on Celebrity Circle , a TV game show being taped on a cruise to the Virgin Islands.
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-312-01035-5
The sequel to Murder Straight Up and New, Improved Murder will add to Gorman's laurels and the popularity of his Midwestern hero-narrator, Jack Dwyer. Private detective Dwyer agrees to help Karen Lane, his high school crush, to recover a lost...
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (197p) ISBN 978-0-312-55325-8
Jack Dwyer, the ex-cop who appeared in Gorman's previous novels Rough Cut and New, Improved Murder, makes his return in a rather slight and lackluster crime thriller. Working as a security guard between acting jobs, Dwyer is at the studios of...
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Edward Gorman, Author Doubleday Books $14.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-385-24561-6
The inspiration for this novel by veteran genre writer Gorman ( Grave's Retreat ) was Anna Placak, the first female uniformed police officer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1890. The author's Anna Tolan, of that time and place, wears a pinafore with a...
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Edward Gorman, Author . DAW $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0050-7
The inhumanity of the Salem witch trials is the focal point of this dark, absorbing thriller about a small sect of modern-day witches residing in the quiet town of Hastings Corner, Mass. Laura Morgan and Abby Stewart, best friends from high school,...
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Edward Gorman, Author . Pegasus $24 (229p) ISBN 978-1-933648-32-3
At the start of Gorman's engaging seventh civil rights–era whodunit (after 2004's Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ), PI Sam McCain goes looking for a blackmailer and finds him dead alongside one of his blackmail victims, dynamic black...
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Edward Gorman, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-312-56768-2
Fast and funny, this first in a promised series bodes very well indeed. Narrator Jack Dwyer is an ex-cop, a part-time rent-a-cop and an aspiring actor. He meets his former lover, Jane, who's holding a pistol and saying only, ""He's dead.'' Sure...
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Edward Gorman, Author Daw Books $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-88677-808-8
A beautiful young woman is found unconscious in an alley, with no memory of who she is or how she got there. When a mysterious impulse leads her to a cheap motel room containing a corpse, all the evidence points to her as the most likely suspect in...
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Edward Gorman, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-312-36784-8
Shamus-winner Gorman (Fools Rush In) puts his experience as a political speechwriter to good use in this entertaining first of what appears to be a new series. Dev Conrad, a cynical yet idealistic political consultant, signs on for the re-election...
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Edward Gorman, Author, Ed Gorman, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0968-7
Shamus-winner Gorman's fourth nostalgia-ridden Sam McCain novel (after The Day the Music Died), set in Black River Falls, Iowa (pop. 27,300), during the summer of 1960, has to rank as one of the more good-natured mysteries in memory. His wouldn&#
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Edward Gorman, Author, Martin Harry Greenberg, Author, Ed Gorman, Author . Tor $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1146-7
Gorman and Greenberg's hefty and satisfyingly diverse anthology gathers 32 crime stories first published in 2003, along with six succinct introductory surveys of the mystery scene for that year. The opener, Kathyrn Rusch's low-key yet...
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Edward Gorman, Author, Various, Author, Martin Harry Greenberg, Editor Roc $9.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-451-45048-7
This anthology of contemporary horror and suspense stories describes a variety of ``stalkers,'' human and otherwise, that intrude in the lives of others. Featuring the work of Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon and John Coyne, this was called ``a...
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Edward Gorman, Author, Edward Gorman, Editor Black Lizard Books $15.95 (664p) ISBN 978-0-88739-094-4
Gorman's taste runs to hardboiled crime fiction that, like Hitchcock films, reveals the sinister impulse toward subversion and violence in ordinary people. The 39 tales, including Murder Me for Nickels , Peter Rabe's 1960 novella about jukebox...
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Edward Gorman, Author, E. J. Gorman, Author Forge $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85778-3
Lyndon Johnson reportedly said that ""the two worst things that can happen to a politician are to wake up with a live boy or a dead girl."" When the latter happens to David Cummings, a much-loved, cancer-stricken U.S. senator from Iowa, it sets off...
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Edward Gorman, Author, Ed Gorman, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-24271-8
Veteran crime author and editor Gorman gives psychological profiler and former FBI man Robert Payne (Harlot's Moon, Hawk Moon, etc.) a fourth chance to shine, but he manages only a pale glow in this loosely constructed tale. Brenner, Iowa, seems an...
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Edward Gorman, Author, Ed Gorman, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1296-0
The sixth Sam McCain novel from Shamus-winner Gorman (Save the Last Dance for Me , etc.) trades on Cold War fears and the repercussions from the political and social issues of a bygone era. It's late October 1962, the height of the Cuban Missile
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Edward Gorman, Author, Ed Gorman, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1114-7
Shamus-winner Gorman's niftily titled new novel opens on a warm summer night in 1961 in Black River Falls, Iowa. Soon after a girl turns up dead at a class reunion party, her drag-racing boyfriend slams into a clay wall at 90 miles an hour. An...
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E. Gorman, Author, Edward Gorman, Author M. Evans and Company $14.95 (157p) ISBN 978-0-87131-545-8
This is a western for grown-ups, written in a lean, hardboiled style that should appeal to readers who ``don't read westerns.'' In the waning years of the frontier, in an unnamed territory, bounty-hunter Guild celebrates a joyless 54th birthday in a
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E. J. Gorman, Author, Edward Gorman, Author Forge $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-85777-6
The president's wife makes like Nancy Drew in this contrived thriller from Gorman (The Marilyn Tapes). Neglected by her husband, First Lady Claire Hutton turns to her old friend David Hart for chaste companionship. But David then blackmails her,...
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E. J. Gorman, Author, Edward Gorman, Author Forge $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85646-5
In this fast-paced tale of treachery and murder, Gorman cleverly combines the tawdry elements of Marilyn Monroe's drug-befuddled affairs with the Kennedy sons, a struggle between the mafia and J. Edgar Hoover to gain control of the Kennedys and...
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