Mark Richard Zubro is the Lambda Literary Award winning author of two gay mystery series – the Tom & Scott series featuring high school teacher Tom Mason and his lover professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, and the Paul Turner series, featuring gay Chicago Police Detective Paul Turner. He is a high-school teacher, and president of the teacher’s union, in the Chicago suburb of Mokena, Illinois.
Books written in order by series and date of publication:
Tom and Scott mysteries
- A Simple Suburban Murder (1990)
- Why Isn’t Becky Twitchell Dead? (1991)
- The Only Good Priest (1991)
- The Principal Cause of Death (1992)
- An Echo of Death (1995)
- Rust on the Razor (1996)
- Are You Nuts? (1999)
- One Dead Drag Queen (2001)
- Here Comes the Corpse (2002)
- File Under Dead (2004)
- Everyone’s Dead But Us (2006)
- Schooled in Murder (2008)
- Another Dead Republican (2012)
- A Conspiracy of Fear (2014)
Paul Turner mysteries
- Sorry Now? (1991)
- Political Poison (1994)
- Another Dead Teenager (1996)
- The Truth Can Get You Killed (1998)
- Drop Dead (1999)
- Sex and Murder.com (2002)
- Dead Egotistical Morons (2003)
- Nerds Who Kill (2005)
- Hook, Line, and Homicide (2007)
- Black and Blue and Pretty Dead Too (2011)
- Pawn of Satan (2013)
Roger and Steve young adult mysteries
- Fear (2014)
- Hope (2015)
- Always (2018)
Alien Danger gay science fiction trilogy
- Alien Quest (2013)
- Alien Home (2014)
- Alien Victory (2015)
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