Books

	Damnation Falls Author: Edward Wright Published: August 5, 2008 by St. Martin's Minotaur (U.S.); Orion (U.K.) Category: Mystery/Thriller Main Character: Randall Wilkes, Sonny McMahan Randall Wilkes, his big-city journalism career in ruins, has returned after twenty years to Pilgrim’s Rest, the Tennessee hill town where he grew up. He has taken on a lucrative but low-prestige writing job for Sonny McMahan, a former governor and Randall’s boyhood friend, Click for more info.

	Red Sky Lament Author: Edward Wright Published: September 3, 2006 by Orion Books Series Name: John Ray Horn Mysteries Category: Mystery/Thriller Main Character: John Ray Horn, Joseph Mad Crow Los Angeles, late 1940s: As brush fires begin to eat at the dry grass in the hills rimming the San Fernando Valley, a more ominous threat is taking shape. All over Hollywood, the U.S. government is ordering people to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee as part of the crusade to uncover Communist influence in the movies. John Ray Horn has little use for politics, but he knows a few things about outsiders. And when his ex-lover Maggie O'Dare asks him to come to the aid of an old friend of hers who has been targeted by the committee, he can't refuse. Click for more info.

	The Silver Face Author: Edward Wright Published: September 9, 2004 by Orion (U.K.) / Putnam (U.S., under title "While I Disappear") Series Name: John Ray Horn Mysteries Category: Mystery/Thriller Main Character: John Ray Horn, Joseph Mad Crow, Rose Galen One rain-soaked evening, John Ray Horn runs into an old flame. Rose Galen played the female lead in his second movie. Young, beautiful and improbably talented for her B-movie surroundings, she had a shining quality to her. Now, years later, Rose is a shattered creature, drink-sodden and heavy with sadness. Something happened to her years ago, before Horn first knew her, something so terrible that it would eventually leave her broken. Hoping to uncover her long-held secret, Horn goes to visit Rose at her shabby rooming house. He finds her strangled to death. Click for more info.

	Clea's Moon Author: Edward Wright Published: March 15, 2003 by Putnam (U.S.) / Orion (U.K.) Series Name: John Ray Horn Mysteries Category: Mystery/Thriller Main Character: John Ray Horn, Joseph Mad Crow Once he was Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of B-movie westerns. Now, after a spell in prison, John Ray Horn lives on the margins of 1940s Los Angeles. Blacklisted by the studios and divorced by his wife, he earns a shaky living by collecting gambling debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. One night Scotty Bullard, an old friend, contacts Horn soon after the death of his own father, a powerful real estate developer. Click for more info.