S.K. Epperson

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1990
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Brother Lowdown

    Homicide detective Simon Brith, a misogynist with a long-standing grudge against women, matches wits with the charismatic Brother Lowdown, another misogynist who brings wisdom to the homeless and death to the women of Wichita...

  • Dumford Blood

    Police officer Ben Portlock investigates the grisly killings of pregnant animals, the supposed suicide of the Dumford, Kansas, garbage collector, the return of his troubled ex-con girlfriend, and dark secrets from the past that someone will do anythi...

  • Borderland

    Not much had changed in remote Denke, Kansas, since the pioneer days: descendants of the same families still walked the streets; the same customs still held the residents together; the same fears still forced the people to hide their dark secrets fro...

  • Nightmare

    On a remote ranch deep in the Flint Hills at a clinic for women diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, patients are dying in extremely violent ways. The staff has invited Dr. Bryan Raleigh and his team, along with his journalist brother, David...

  • The Moons of Summer

    The quiet, friendly town of Colston is overshadowed by a dark and deadly force that plagues Colston's citizens, and when a series of strange, unexplaned deaths occur, everyone begins to fear for their lives. Reprint....

  • The Neighborhood

    Abra Ahren's new neighborhood seems like an average American small town, but her discovery of the grotesque secrets that lie beneath the white picket-fence exterior make her more reluctant to welcome her neighbors. Original....

  • Green Lake

    The suicide of Madeleine Heron’s husband leaves her at her sister’s lake house for the summer, until she can ‘sort things out’ for herself and find a new direction, but life in the lake community is anything but conducive to calm; right away ...

  • Satyr's Graze

    In half-hearted collusion with a neighbor desperate to find a runaway husband, architect Etta Baxter agrees to vacation on the mid-California coast in the sleepy town of Satyr’s Graze, where she steps into a magnificent stone house with a monster o...

  • The Rift

    A downed plane full of passengers is halved by two realms, one that looks a lot like the hot, dry desert of the southwest, and one that doesn't, where the flora is blue trees with curly leaves and the fauna is something no one on board has ever seen,...



  • Darker Matters

    Two grieving cousins discover much they did not know about their lost loved one and his role in keeping their town free of the horror that descends upon his death. Bad things, terrible things occur with escalating intensity and once Griffin and Flynn...

  • Curse of the Alastor

    Angelo Merona is tired of waiting for Marti Zaroni to realize she loves him. Marti, devoted to science, is infuriated by the manly Angelo and wishes he would just get over it. Compounding things is a demon that has plagued their two families for cent...

  • Betsy Klausmeyer's Cellar

    During his son's baseball game a tax attorney catches a glimpse of a birthmark on a man's leg and his blood runs cold with the memories that come. When he was five years old he saw something he shouldn't have, went somewhere he never should have gone...

  • The Vision And Other Tales

    A collection of tales by the author of Brother Lowdown, Borderland, The Moons of Summer, The Neighborhood and Green Lake. Join in for the mysterious happening in The Vision and stick around until the final gasp of The Last Secret....

  • Black Night

    Some crimes are too horrible to forget, and some just keep happening over and over again. In a town where a frontier military fort was once converted to an orphanage for destitute children, dark deeds took place. A woman who lived there has come back...

  • A Deep Red Gold

    A death row inmate with only days left to live is recruited by the FBI to obtain information from a wealthy, arrogant Egyptian believed to be behind the murders of several hundred women across the border....

  • The Field, the Bones, the Pendant

  • The Slaughters of the Race

    While doing a stint for bank fraud the unlucky Joe Riggins meets kindly Chung Zhang whom he learns murdered nine women in a bizarre trafficking scheme for old money back in China. In prison the elderly man is his mentor, but Zhang befriended Joe for ...

  • The Bear

    Caleb Watchman finds himself in 1918 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, where he rides in a model T, samples absinthe, observes people under siege from influenza and gains dangerous knowledge about a murderer from the future. He returns home to impart on...

  • The Crypt Thieves

    A man hired to guard a crypt is betrayed by his ex-soldier sister who knows only part of what's inside and doesn't count on there being something else hidden in the gypsy crypt that not only the relatives, but every warring nation on the planet would...



  • Dog Star Bender

    More than a hundred years ago a series of murders committed by a family who called themselves the Benders took place in Kansas. The father, mother, son and daughter took in weary travelers and offered a warm bed to sleep in for the night, but usuall...

  • Kingsley Calendar's Experiment in the Field

    A determined billionaire takes people from refugee camps in the poorest areas around the globe and brings them to the U.S. to live in a grand humanitarian experiment that finds him strung from a tree, bloodied by the Taliban, haunted by an albino Afr...

  • The Tiger's Spring

    Cosmetics heiress Terra Donlevy has opted to shun the trappings of wealth and live in the country with only a modest security system and a few dogs to keep her safe. Junius Redwine is newly released from prison and though the rapist-murderer claims t...

  • Abilene

    In 1870 Abilene is a destination for cowboys, cattlemen, prostitutes and a family of doctors attempting to practice an unorthodox type of medicine learned in Europe, a technique that involves manipulation of the spine to effect cures and ease minor a...

  • The Bind

    Centuries ago, an ancient alchemist's taste for young girls saw thirteen-year-old Lura Cartaun fleeing for her life. When he catches her, the old monster gives her a choice. Generations later her descendants are still trying to undo the curse placed ...

  • On The Mountain of the White Monkey

    At a haunted house on Halloween, high school senior Jordan Peale meets a pretty teen in foster-care named Caley. After a gruesome car accident, she disappears. Five years later he meets her again in a diner outside Brownsville and now her pretty face...

  • The Coffin Ship

    A woman and her two young daughters on a ship filled with starving, dying Irish emigrants encounters a bigger challenge than an unknown future in America when she is faced with saving the life of two people, the captain's wife, and a recalcitrant Eng...

  • The Ghost of the Rock

    A search for diamonds on an island with a history of murder and insanity leads Sutton De Berg and her adopted older brother Gerard Brach to remember feelings they suppressed years ago. But Sutton's father, the wealthy Edward De Berg, and her French h...

  • The Cause of the Chain

    Documentary maker Hugo Emory arrives in Maryland to make a film about his sister and brother-in-law, professional ghost hunting historians and their famously haunted Hunford House. While there, Hugo runs into the last person he expects to find under ...

  • Adolpha's House

    Gabrielle ends a relationship, buys a house, and the fifteen-year-old prostitute who previously owned the home takes over her existence, until Gabrielle makes a decision to do things her way instead. Of course she pays, and so do half a dozen others,...



  • Kansas Blue

    Former Cavalry Lieutenant Austin Bourke wants to break free of his past, and leading a group of people who seek to take advantage of the Homestead Act in Kansas seems like the best way to do it, until he meets Danni Coopersand, a golden-haired woman...

  • An Acre of Dark

    Betsy Klausmeyer's Cellar: A Story About a Bad Place, revisited the nightmare of a man with memories of a terrifying event that changed his life as a child. Intertwined with the details was the girl who a decade ago survived attempted murder by her f...

  • Rollercoaster

    Four years ago, Breton "Eaton" Stone lost his little sister inside an abandoned amusement park. He's gone back to look for her every day since. It's how he knows about the Japanese film crew the new owner's brother is sent in to find. It's how he kno...

  • The Jester Takes Three

    Wealthy tennis pro Jesse Coffey has had his eye on Wednesday Wendy Considine since she was seventeen and he's unhappy that it's taken an F4 tornado to finally make her look his way. His wealthy parents hate the idea of their star athlete son even bre...

  • After the Fall

    Two of the abused young girls rescued from the abandoned amusement park are teenagers now, and though everyone believes their nightmare is over, for Audra Stone and Gretel Gooch, living in the real world with normal people may prove scarier than the ...

  • The Devil Lives in Lawrence

    A routine real estate showing in the history-rich college town of Lawrence, Kansas takes a dark turn and brings Eve Mellor and Shawnee pilot Nate Catton together to face events littered with symbols too confusing to understand-and a few decapitat...

  • Sam's Anna or The (Impossible) Lives of Some People

    Twenty-two year old Anna Wincott has an older brother with autism, part of the one in forty-five people in America diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. Though he shares similar traits with other autistics, Lewis is in no way usual, and fo...

  • Eris Renard

    A decade after the murderous events at Green Lake, former conservation officer Eris Renard finds his life's direction has changed, not of his own choosing but due to the obsessions and brutal tactics of others. He meets a gravel-voiced finder of miss...

  • Fixing the Dog, Sex Saturday and more tales

    Fixing the Dog, and Sex Saturday start off a collection of humorous, frightening and offbeat tales from the author of Green Lake, Eris Renard, Nightmare, Borderland, The Neighborhood, The Moons of Summer, and many other titles....

  • Winter Slocum

    After gruff Winter Slocum, finder of missing persons, gets a new case he calls on the assistance of former conservation officer Eris Renard and the family of friends the two of them developed while rescuing the beautiful Haugen sisters in ERIS RENARD...



  • Ronja in the Woods

    The white-haired Ronja Haugen rescued by native Eris Renard and tracker Winter Slocum has lost some of her edge, thanks to a decision to carry a child for someone who can't. At five months pregnant, Ronja accompanies her sister Bara and their compan...

  • The Lost People

    Eris returns home from the road to find his half-brother, new dad of twins, Clint, stressed and overworked, taken advantage of by irresponsible employees at the bar and burdened at home with twice the chores. Kansas friends Ben and Minda have moved i...

  • Finding Madeleine

    News that Madeleine Heron and her husband Ishkode Mikom have gone missing in Montana sees Eris, his daughter Ursa, Winter, and Ronja on a journey north to find answers. Winter's distraction at learning he's about to become a dad makes things difficul...

  • When Zeph Met Kess

    Former teacher Zeph Grafton has no intention of giving in to the manipulation of others, not from those who attempt to bully him, and not from those who profess to love him. When he meets guarded mail carrier Kess, manipulated in her own right by a s...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

S.K. Epperson has published 43 books.

S.K. Epperson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, When Zeph Met Kess, was published in December 2022.

The first book by S.K. Epperson, Brother Lowdown, was published in September 1990.

No. S.K. Epperson does not write books in series.
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