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Paul D. Marks

Biography

Paul D. Marks

Paul D. Marks is the author of the Shamus Award-Winning mystery-thriller WHITE HEAT. Publishers Weekly calls WHITE HEAT a “taut crime yarn.” Betty Webb of Mystery Scene Magazine calls its sequel BROKEN WINDOWS “Extraordinary.” His short story “Ghosts of Bunker Hill” was voted #1 in the 2016 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Award. And “Fade-Out on Bunker Hill” came in second in the 2020 Ellery Queen Readers Poll. “Windward” was selected for the Best American Mystery Stories of 2018, and won the 2018 Macavity Award for Best Short Story.

He has written four novels, co-edited two anthologies and written countless short stories, including many award winners and nominees. His short fiction has been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Akashic’s Noir series (St. Louis), Alfred Hitchcock Mystery MagazineHardboiled, Switchblade, Mystery Weekly and many others. He has served on the boards of the Los Angeles chapters of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. His latest novel is THE BLUES DON'T CARE.

Paul D. Marks

Books by Paul D. Marks

by Paul D. Marks - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Mystery

Bobby Saxon lives in a world that isn't quite ready for him. He's the only white musician in an otherwise all-black swing band at the famous Club Alabam in Los Angeles during World War II --- and that isn't the only unique thing about him. And if that isn't enough to deal with, in order to get a permanent gig with the band, Bobby must first solve a murder that one of the band members is falsely accused of in that racially prejudiced society.

by Paul D. Marks - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

While the storm rages over California’s notorious anti-illegal alien Proposition 187, a young woman climbs to the top of the famous Hollywood Sign --- and jumps to her death. An undocumented day laborer is murdered. And a disbarred and desperate lawyer in Venice Beach places an ad in a local paper that says: “Will Do Anything For Money.” Private investigator Duke Rogers takes on the case of Carlos, the murdered day laborer, as a favor to his sister Marisol, the housekeeper down the street from Duke’s house. Duke must figure out what ties together Carlos’ murder, the ex-lawyer’s desperate ad and the woman jumping from the sign. And who is the mysterious “coyote”?