Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    November 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Alien Danger

1 - Alien Quest (Sep-2013)
2 - Alien Home (Apr-2014)
3 - Alien Victory (Jul-2015)

A Mike King Mystery

1 - Dying to Play (Jan-2015)
2 - Dying for a Thrill (Mar-2016)

A Paul Turner Mystery

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

Safe

1 - Safe (Jan-2014)
2 - Hope (Feb-2015)

A Tom and Scott Mystery

1 - A Simple Suburban Murder (1988)
2 - Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead? (Feb-1990)
3 - The Only Good Priest (Jun-1991)
4 - The Principal Cause of Death (May-1992)
5 - An Echo of Death (Oct-1994)
6 - Rust on the Razor (Jul-1996)
7 - Are You Nuts? (Jul-1998)
8 - One Dead Drag Queen (Jul-2000)
9 - Here Comes the Corpse (Aug-2002)
10 - File Under Dead (Aug-2004)
11 - Everyone's Dead But Us (Jul-2006)
12 - Hook, Line, and Homicide (Jul-2007)
14 - Schooled in Murder (Jul-2008)
15 - Another Dead Republican (Aug-2012)
16 - A Conspiracy of Fear (Nov-2014)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • A Simple Suburban Murder

    • / Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy
    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 1

    Simple Suburban Murder is the book that started it all--the debut novel of Lambda Literary Award winner Mark Richard Zubro.When a gay high school teacher starts investigating a colleague's murder, he finds beneath the calm veneer of his Midwestern su...

  • Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 2

    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 killing his girlfriend. As a friend of the boy's family, Tom is asked to help cl...

  • The Only Good Priest

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 3

    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...

  • Sorry Now?

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 1

    Publishers Weekly calls Mark Richard Zubro's Sorry Now: A Paul Turner Mystery? "compelling and even urgent." While in Chicago, right-wing televangelist Bruce Mucklewrath is attacked and his daughter killed. Sensing a potential time bomb, and with Mu...

  • The Principal Cause of Death

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 4

    The Principal Cause of Death is the next entry in Mark Richard Zubro's Tom and Scott series. When gay high School teacher Tom Mason is accused of murdering the school principal, Tom and his partner, Scott Carpenter, need to catch the real murderer an...

  • Political Poison

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 2

    Paul Turner is not your typical middle-aged cop. A widower, he lives with his two teenaged sons, and he is gay. He is also trusted by the brass to handle sensitive cases, so when a Chicago alderman is found murdered, Turner is assigned to the case....

  • An Echo of Death

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 5

    Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, go on the run when they find an ex-teammate and friend of Scott's murdered in their apartment. With the killers now on their trail, with the death of Scott's friend still a myste...

  • Another Dead Teenager

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 3

    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 ne...

  • Rust on the Razor

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 6

    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 ar...



  • The Truth Can Get You Killed

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 4

    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 urg...

  • Are You Nuts?

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 7

    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 PT...

  • Drop Dead

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 5

    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 F...

  • One Dead Drag Queen

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 8

    A series of three bombs destroy a local health clinic, killing many and injuring many others including high school teacher and clinic volunteer Tom Mason. While Tom is hospitalized, his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, begins to b...

  • Sex and Murder.Com

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 6

    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. Meanw...

  • Here Comes the Corpse

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 9

    Happy never after? Murder crashes the wedding in the ninth Tom & Scott Mystery from the Lambda Literary Awardâ€"winning author of One Dead Drag Queen.Chicago area high school teacher Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Car...

  • Dead Egotistical Morons

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 7

    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,...

  • File Under Dead

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 10

    After years of avoiding volunteer organizations, Chicago high school teacher Tom Mason is finally guilted into volunteering a few hours a week at a local gay services clinic. Since he finds the bitter in-fighting at the organization to be intolerable...

  • Nerds Who Kill

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 8

    Paul Turner is a widowed father of two teenaged boys, one of whom has spina bifida, rapidly approaching middle age, and used to dealing gracefully with all the challenges these things entail. Turner, however, is slightly different from others in his ...

  • Everyone's Dead But Us

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 11

    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 marria...



  • Hook, Line, and Homicide

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 12

    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 ...

  • Schooled in Murder

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 14

    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...

  • Black and Blue and Pretty Dead, Too

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 9

  • Another Dead Republican

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 15

  • Alien Quest

    Alien Danger - 1

  • Pawn of Satan

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 10

  • Safe

    Safe - 1

  • Alien Home

    Alien Danger - 2

  • A Conspiracy of Fear

    A Tom and Scott Mystery - 16

  • Dying to Play

    A Mike King Mystery - 1

    Gay PI saves the team. Gay PI Mike King is called upon to investigate what is happening to a minor league baseball team. He follows the trail of drugs, death, and destruction through the deadly dangers he finds in the rural community. Through the liv...



  • Hope

    Safe - 2

    Ripped from his homeland, Adrian must fight to adjust to an entirely new way of life. Once a prince, now a slave, Adrian must struggle to readjust and survive in a world unknown to him. He's got escape on the mind, but his new Master is proving to be...

  • Alien Victory

    Alien Danger - 3

    The conclusion to the great gay sci-fi epic. In the concluding volume of the Alien Danger series the perils and dangers of the universe converge on the lovers, Mike from Earth, and Joe from Hrrrm an unlikely pair to have fallen in love. Together they...

  • Dying for a Thrill

    A Mike King Mystery - 2

    Sleuth Mike King in the midst of international intrigue, blinding snow, and bitter cold. Detective Mike King finds himself investigating international intrigue while the worst blizzard in Chicago history rages outside. A group of gay computer hackers...

  • Gentle

    Two high school boys try to survive amid death and danger in the desert, while hoping for the possibility of first love. Shane Semereau wants to be left alone to read his books and carve his wood sculptures in the warm desert. His life is a swarm of ...

  • Ring of Silence

    A Paul Turner Mystery - 11

    Detectives try to save lives and protect the community and themselves.

    We all saw the video of the Chicago cop who shot the kid sixteen time while his colleagues stood and watched. What would happen if Detectives Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick...

  • The Reindeer Conundrum

    Rudolph must find the true message of Christmas to save Santa and the holiday for the world. During the frantic search for the missing Santa, we learn the heart and soul about what is important in the way we deal with each other, including among t...

  • Always

    Roger and Steve are off to the prom and a night out together. While watching the stars traverse the desert sky, they stumble upon a horrific crime and are soon involved in danger and intrigue. The lives of openly gay high school students can be a who...

  • Cradle Song

    This is the story of a Christmas Eve and the travails of a tiny harmonica alone and lost in the deep dark on the back of his shelf in a store on the Isle of Misfit Toys, and about a little boy frightened, alone, and lost from his family on Christmas ...

  • Forever

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    Two gay teen boys in love. Both have familial woes including virulent homophobia from at least one parent in each family. Then their school is attacked and even though they can alibi each other, many of those around them think of them as the most lik...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro has published 38 books.

Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cradle Song, was published in November 2018.

The first book by Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro, A Simple Suburban Murder, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro has 5 series.
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