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Mark Zubro Books In Order

Tom Mason and Scott Carpenter Books In Order

  1. A Simple Suburban Murder (1989)
  2. Why Isn’t Becky Twitchell Dead? (1990)
  3. The Only Good Priest (1991)
  4. The Principal Cause of Death (1992)
  5. An Echo of Death (1994)
  6. Rust on the Razor (1996)
  7. Are You Nuts? (1998)
  8. One Dead Drag Queen (2000)
  9. Here Comes the Corpse (2002)
  10. File Under Dead (2004)
  11. Everyone’s Dead But Us (2006)
  12. Schooled in Murder (2008)
  13. Another Dead Republican (2012)
  14. A Conspiracy of Fear (2014)

Paul Turner Books In Order

  1. Sorry Now? (1991)
  2. Political Poison (1993)
  3. Another Dead Teenager (1995)
  4. The Truth Can Get You Killed (1997)
  5. Drop Dead (1999)
  6. Sex and Murder.com (2001)
  7. Dead Egotistical Morons (2003)
  8. Nerds Who Kill (2005)
  9. Hook, Line, and Homicide (2007)
  10. Black and Blue and Pretty Dead, Too (2011)
  11. Pawn of Satan (2013)
  12. Ring of Silence (2017)

Alien Danger Books In Order

  1. Alien Quest (2013)
  2. Alien Home (2014)

Roger & Steve Teen Mystery Books In Order

  1. Safe (2014)
  2. Hope (2015)
  3. Always (2018)

Mike King Books In Order

  1. Dying To Play (2015)
  2. Dying For a Thrill (2016)

Shane and Corey Gay Teen Mystery Books In Order

  1. Gentle (2016)
  2. Forever (2020)

Novels

  1. Foolproof (2009)

Novellas

  1. A Cradle Song (2018)

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Mark Zubro Books Overview

A Simple Suburban Murder

SIMPLE SUBURBAN MURDER is Mark Richard Zubro’s debut novel.

Why Isn’t Becky Twitchell Dead?

One would think teaching would be a quiet profession. But not in Chicago, thinks high school teacher Tom Mason when he hears that one of his students has been accused of kissing his girlfriend. As a friend of the boy’s family, Tom is asked to help clear him, and the more he probes, the more it seems that something sinister is going on in the usually quiet suburbs of Chicago. With the aid of his lover Scoot Carpenter, a professional baseball player, the two set out to discover what really happened that night.

The Only Good Priest

Father Sebastian, The Only Good Priest everybody knows, is dead. Pastor of a parish outside Chicago, Father Sebastian was also involved in the gay community through his work with Faith, the gay Catholic organization the diocese is trying to drive out of the church. High school teacher Tom mason, who has gained some local notoriety from his involvement in a couple of murder cases, is asked by friends to look into the priest’s death; was it murder? Along with his lover Scott Carpenter, a professional baseball player, Tom plunges into ecclesiastical intrigues, the hidden underground of gay Chicago and the tragedies caused by a hypocritical church.

The Principal Cause of Death

The latest in the Lambda Literary Award winning Tom and Scott series. When schoolteacher Tom Mason is accused of killing the high scool principal, Tom and his lover, Scott Carpenter, set out to catch the murderer and prove Tom’s innocence.

An Echo of Death

Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, find the body of Scott’s former teammate in their apartment, forcing them into a deadly game of hide and seek. By the author of Political Poison.

Rust on the Razor

Scott Carpenter, Chicago baseball player, and his lover, Tom Mason rush to rural Georgia to be by the side of Scott’s father, who has just been stricken by a heart attack. Once there, they discover that the locals are none too pleased to have them around. To make matters worse, the local sheriff turns up dead, in the back of their rental car, and the local officials can’t imagine anyone they’d rather convict of the crime than the two of them…

Are You Nuts?

After a difficult summer, the last thing that gay high school teacher Tom Mason needs in the new school year is turmoil. But a conservative parents’ group, ‘worried’ about gay teachers corrupting the students, is attempting to take over the local PTA. And it soon gets worse one of the ringleaders of the parents’ group is murdered in the high school after a very contentious PTA meetings, and Tom’s best friend is arrested for the crime. Now to prove her innocence, Tom must hunt down the real killer…

Here Comes the Corpse

When Tom Masons ex lover is murdered at Toms wedding reception, it casts a pall over the proceedingsigh school teacher Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, decide to formalize their long term relationship with a high profile wedding ceremony. Everyone comes out, from friends and coworkers to the social elite and the media, including Toms long ago ex boyfriend. If thatwerent bad enough, the ex boyfriend is found murdered in the bathroom during the reception. Now Tom is no longer the groomhe is the prime suspect.

Everyone’s Dead But Us

Tom Mason, former Chicago area high school teacher, recently made a public splash by marrying his long term lover, former professional baseball player Scott Carpenter. After the hoopla surrounding Scott’s public coming out and, of course, the marriage, the couple are in dire need of a quiet vacation somewhere far from the fans, the paparazzi and the general noise of Chicago. Escaping to the privately held Aegean island of Korkasi a resort with twenty two seperate villas for those desiring, and who can afford, absolute privacy. But first a building storm traps them and the others on the island, cutting them off entirely from the outside world. Then the current owner of the island is found murdered, his body lying on the floor of Tom and Scott’s villa. As the storm gathers strength and begins to ravage the island, the guests and employees are being killed off by a person or persons unknown. Trapped on the island with no hope of escape, Tom and Scott must uncover and stop the murderer before everyone dies.

Schooled in Murder

Tom Mason, Chicago area high school teacher, has been teaching at Grover Cleveland High School for a while long enough to loathe the faculty meetings and long enough to know that as bad as they are, they aren’t fatal. Usually. Having had all he can take of the endless bickering, picking and factional disputes, he sneaks out of the meeting for a short break only to find the meeting over when he returns, the usual suspects having departed to the four winds. Having decided that this was a sign of his good fortune, he decides to see if the stockroom actually has the supplies he needs. What he finds there however is a trysting couple in the dark one married, the other not and, once the light is turned on, a dead body in the corner. The body is that of one of his colleagues who stormed out of the faculty meeting earlier, a blackboard eraser stuffed into her lifeless mouth. Having disappeared from the meeting at roughly the same time, Tom finds himself in the unwelcome position of prime suspect and with the help of his husband, former baseball player Scott Carpenter, he’ll have to figure out who really killed the other teacher before the crime is pinned on him.

Sorry Now?

While in Chicago, right wing televangelist Bruce Mucklewrath is attacked and his daughter killed. Sensing a potential time bomb, and with Mucklewrath creating great pressure, the police brass assign the case to Detective Paul Turner whom they trust with sensitive matters. During their investigation, Turner and his partner discover that other right wing bigots have been suffering odd attacks, and they begin to suspect a conspiracy of vengeance, perhaps even from the gay community. This is an uncomfortable thought for Turner, who is himself gay, but when Turner is attacked and his two sons threatened, he has to enlist the help of people in his close knit neighborhood, as well as his contacts in the gay world, to find the solution in time.

Political Poison

Did someone in Chicago hate acity alderman enough to kill him? Chicago polic e detective Paul Turner is assigned the case and discovers that jealous professors and old guard politicians have guilty secrets to protect. And Turner is not your ordinary cop. He’s a widower who happens to be gay and trying to raise his two teen aged sons.

Another Dead Teenager

When two suburban high school students are found murdered both boys who were well respected and liked, with solid family lives and no apparent enemies Detected Paul Turner is assigned the case. However as a gay father with two teenage sons and a new lover in his life, Paul Turner has trouble bringing his full attention to bear on the case. But as details slowly emergy, he begins to suspect that he is investigating something more deadly and horrifying than a pair of senseless killings, something that could threaten the lives of the people he holds most dear.

The Truth Can Get You Killed

The last thing that Chicago Police Detective Paul Turner wants to do on New Year’s Day is investigate a murder. But when the body is that of a conservative, homophobic judge and it is found outside a popular gay nightclub, the task takes on a new urgency for him. Now Turner must unravel the threads connecting the unlikely victim to his unsuspected murder scene and look for answers in the most unusual places.

Drop Dead

When male supermodel Cullom Furyk plummets to his death from the top of a major downtown hotel, gay Chicago Police Detective Paul Turner and his partner, Detective Buck Fenwick, are called to find out what actually happened. One witness claims that Furyk was pushed to his death, and someone involved in Furyk’s tumultuous personal or professional life may have played a role in the mysterious incident. Will Turner and Fenwick be able to determine the killer before someone gets away with murder?

Sex and Murder.com

Craig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago’s answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by City Hall. Meanwhile, the list of suspects is almost endless and that along has the powers that be breathing down the necks of Chicago Police Detectives Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick. But as the two struggle to untangle the case and find the killer, they soon learn that the killer has only just begun.

Dead Egotistical Morons

Boys4U is the world’s most popular singing group at least among teenaged girls and they have closed out their sold out world tour with a series of shows in Chicago’s brand new arena. The premier group of the inexplicably popular ‘boy band’ trend, they’ve just finished their very last concert of the tour. While hundreds of tour members, well wishers, label executives, and various hangers on wait to celebrate another wildly successful tour, the lead singer is found murdered shot in the back of the head at close range in the shower of the backstage dressing area. To make matters more distressing, the crime itself was almost impossible there was tight security on the shower area at all times, the only other people back there were the other members of the band, and none of the dozens of people in the next room report having heard a shot. While the international press is engaged in an unprecedented feeding frenzy over the sensationalistic murder, Chicago Police Detectives Paul Turner and his partner Buck Fenwick have pulled the unenviable task of investigating the murder. But even the initial appearances are deceiving and as they dig deeper into the case, they uncover more disturbing truths beneath the wholesome fa ade of Boys4U. Now they have untangle an increasingly complex web if they are to stop a determined killer before more victims are claimed.

Hook, Line, and Homicide

Since when are vacations ever relaxing? All Chicago police Detective Paul Turner is hoping for on his annual retreat from the city and his job is a little peace and quiet. This time he’s headed to the Canadian Great North Woods for a couple of weeks with family and friends his two teenaged sons, his lover Ben, neighborhood pals, and his long term police partner, Detective Buck Fenwick, along with his wife.
But hopes of tranquility are soon crushed when Turner intervenes in a scuffle between a group of First Nations teens and a local bully and his cohorts. In the days following the incident, Turner and company find themselves the object of a series of attacks, break ins, and sabotage of their equipment. Unable to get the attention of the local police, the events continue to escalate, culminating in the local bully s dead body being found floating in the water near the dock of their houseboat. Making this not only one of the least relaxing vacations ever, but one of the deadliest.

Foolproof

The morning of 9/11 Brenda Grant and Daniel Henderson met for coffee before going to their software firm in the World Trade Center. That casual act saved them from the Twin Towers’ collapse, even as their friends and Brenda’s fianc were killed and their company obliterated. Founding their own software security firm, they never forgot that morning of horror. Grant and Henderson then establish a clandestine division inside their company committed to covertly tracking down global terrorists. In a search involving Washington DC, Egypt, Italy and Turkey, they expose a plot to hijack a US presidential election, rig voting machines, and topple democracies worldwide. Foolproof is a global thriller in the tradition of Tess Gerritson, Catherine Coulter, and Linda Howard.

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