Illinois Authors

New English Library, 1989.

HarperTorch, New York : [2003], ©2002.

While tending to a drug-overdosed billionaire computer wunderkind in the ER, Dr. Carroll Monks (Twice Dying) enters into a world of unspeakable genetic testing, corporate cover-ups, and murder.

HarperCollins, New York : ©2002.

Encountering a suspicious case involving a drug overdose only to discover that the patient is a billionaire computer prodigy, medical investigator Carroll Monks finds himself defending his ER from an apparant sabotage.

Harpercollins, New York : 2009, ©2008.

Hugh Davoren and Madbird from McMahon's Lone Creek are back. The daughter of a famous professor makes a distraught call to Davoren when she finds a wooden box containing disturbing photos and an earring that belonged to her stepmother, murdered after protesting the opening of a silver mine. There are plenty of people who may have had a hand in the murder cases that these photos have reopened.

Tom Doherty Associates, New York : 1992, ©1990.

HarperCollins, New York : 2009.

After a failed career and marriage in California, Hugh Davoren is back in Helena, Montana, as a construction hand at the old Pettyjohn Ranch, home of many childhood memories--including the seemingly accidental death of his teenaged first love, Celia. Hugh is just trying to get through another long workday on the ranch when he discovers two dead stallions. A further probe into the matter only pushes Hugh into dangerous corners, as he finds that the ranch's slick new owner, his beautiful wife, and even old Mr. Pettyjohn have terrible secrets to keep.

Harper, New York : 2008, ©2007.

Hugh Davoren returns to his childhood home in Helena, Montana, where he is pushed into a dangerous situation while investigating the mysterious deaths of several prize stallions on the ranch where he is working.

Tom Doherty Associates, New York : 1988.

HarperCollins e-books, Pymble, NSW ; 2008.

Bound and blindfolded on the floor of an SUV, Dr. Carroll Monks knows nothing of the countercultural sociopath called Freeboot, his drugged-up, paramilitary community in the Northern California wilderness, or his plans to unleash a nationwide blood tide. But a dying child whom the abducted emergency room physician must save is waiting in the outlaw's hidden compound -- as well as a shocking revelation that could shatter Monks's private world. And now an impossible escape is the only option, before Freeboot's diabolically crafted revolution destroys Monks, his family, and every last resident in a small coastal town.

HarperTorch, New York : [2006], ©2005.

HarperCollins, New York : 2009.

-- -- -- In his search for the truth, Monks is drawn into a culture of unimaginable wealth and vanity -- only to discover that he is being used as a pawn in a decadent game of glamour and cruelty, one that places him in the crosshairs of a deadly psychopath. With To the Bone.

HarperCollins, New York : ©2003.

Failing to save a beautiful young woman who arrived at his emergency room in a coma, doctor Carroll Monks, struggling against a lawsuit by the victim's grieving parents, discovers a sinister link between the girl's death and a world-famous plastic surgeon.

Little, Brown and Co., New York : 2011.

Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.

Little, Brown and Co., New York : 2011.

Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.

HarperTorch, New York : 2000.

HarperCollins e-books, [Place of publication not identified] : 2010.

Beautiful psychologist Alison Chapley wants to know why and sets off on a search for answers that lures her and her former lover, medical examiner Carroll Monks, into a menacing and increasingly macabre dance with a brilliant psychopath known only as Naia ... Naia's perverse and carefully chosen clues--plaster masks, a snuff videotape, a deadly cobra--draw Alison into a psychological seduction she's powerless to resist. Running out of time, Monks's only chance to save Alison is to outwit this twisted mastermind in a deranged and deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y. : 1998.