Illinois Authors

Ballantine Books, New York : ©1987.

Hoping to earn the money necessary to break free of his wife, and start a new life with his beloved Lara, Boris devises a profitable smuggling scheme, not realizing that his wife and her brutal lover are plotting his demise

Wm. Morrow, New York : ©1993.

Maddy and Alex try to solve the mystery of the murder of an evil stepmother.

Delta Trade Paperbacks, New York, N.Y. : 1997, ©1995.

When his secret gay lover is killed during a series of grisly murders, Emmy Award-winning news reporter Todd Mills finds that everything he has worked for is threatened and desperately seeks the truth.

Dell, New York : 1992, ©1990.

Through hypnosis, a Chicago actor travels thirty years back in time to war-torn Berlin, where, in an act of incredible betrayal, his mother was gunned down by a killer whose identity is only just beginning to emerge

Dell Pub., New York, N.Y. : [1993], ©1992.

With the help of his sister Maddy, a forensic psychiatrist, Alex attempts to find the killer of the woman he loved by reliving the months leading up to her death. By the author of Deadfall in Berlin.

Delacorte Press, New York, N.Y. : ©1997.

In Minneapolis, TV reporter Todd Mills covers the abduction of a congressman by AIDS victims, incensed by the congressman's proposal to cut funding for AIDS research. The group plans to infect the congressman with their blood.

Dell, New York : 2000, ©1999.

Gay detective Steve Rawlins of Minneapolis investigates the murder of a homosexual, suspecting a Hollywood actor. But is his suspicion based on detection or emotion? The actor stole Rawlins' lover.

Kensington Pub. Corp., New York : 1990, ©1989.

After Nina Trenton's husband dies suddenly from a heart attack and she is prevented from seeing his body, her investigation of his death uncovers a deadly experiment taking place behind the doors of the Extended Care Research Institute

Two gay men, one a journalist, the other a detective, team up to find the murderer of a gay policeman in Minneapolis. A portrait of the city's gay community by the author of Hostage.

Viking, New York : 2006.

This novel is a fictionalized account of the mysterious life and death of the notorious Rasputin, as told by his daughter, Maria. Rasputin was a Russian mystic and adviser to the Romanovs, the Russian imperial family. In this story, Maria is interrogated by the provisional government on the details of her father's death, Maria vividly recounts a politically tumultuous Russia, where her father's powerful influence over the throne is unsettling to all levels of society and the threats to his life are no secret. With vast conspiracies mounting against her father, Maria must struggle with the discovery of Rasputin's true nature -- his unbridled carnal appetites, mysterious relationship with the empress, and rumors of involvement in secret religious cults -- to save her father from his murderers. Swept away in a plot much larger than the death of one man, Maria finds herself on the cusp of the Russian Revolution itself.

Dell, New York : 1995, ©1994.

Maddy Phillips, a blind and paraplegic forensic psychologist, and her brother Alex return for their third mystery, as Alex visits the new Russia and is unwittingly drawn into a murderous chain of events

Kensington Pub. Corp., New York : 1984, ©1983.

Nicholas Miller had been in Russia for several months and already he felt the tension and paranoia of being watched. What could the KGB possibly want with him? But suddenly a lovely Russian girl begs him for help, and then a green cab nearly runs him down. As his world turns inside out, Nicholas realizes none of it makes any sense - until he discovers an old woman hidden in the catacombs far below Kiev.Under the pen name of Robert Alexander, Zimmerman's novels include The New York Times bestseller, The Kitchen Boy, and his latest, When Dad Came Back As My Dog.

Viking, New York : 2003.

Presents a novel based on the 1918 Bolshevik revolutionary murder of Czar Nicholas II and the rest of the Russian royal family as told from the perspective of the event's only surviving witness, a young kitchen boy.

Avon, New York, N.Y. : ©1986.

Vera Karansky, a Russian computer expert, is forced by the KGB to attempt to steal top secret information on America's Strategic Defense Initiative

Viking, New York : 2008.

Pavel, a vengeance-seeking villager, joins an underground group that assassinates the grand duke of Russia, irrevocably affecting the life purpose of his widow, Elisavyeta.

Dell Pub., New York, N.Y. : ©1996.

All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette. . . and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death. For twenty years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time Emmy Award-winning TV reporter. He had it all--until his double life became front-page news. Since his lover's murder, Todd hadn't worked. It was the first pause in his professional life.Now he's out, warily beginning a romance with police detective Steve Rawlins, when an old friend, an ex-girlfriend, calls for help. The son she gave up for adoption years before has found her--and left his baby. Now she and the baby are being stalked by a cult of zealots who will stop at nothing to reclaim the child. But as Todd steps into the firing range of The Congregation, he's forced to face the nightmare of his own buried past, as murderous secrets return to kill again. . . .