Frank Corso, a renegade journalist with a conscience and a penchant for solitude, makes a winning debut in this new series from the author of the Leo Waterman novels (The Bum's Rush, etc.). Booted out of New York City and nearly out of...
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G. M. Ford, Author . Morrow $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-97874-8
After six books about Leo Waterman, a Seattle PI with an eccentric fondness for drunks and deadbeats, Ford created in Fury
(2001) a very different kind of antihero—Frank Corso, an ace investigative journalist fired by the New York Times
for...
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G. M. Ford, Author . Morrow $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-380-97875-5
The bestselling true-crime writer Frank Corso and his tattoo-covered Girl Friday, Meg Dougherty, literally fall into the hunt for a bizarre serial killer in this suspenseful fun-and-gun adventure from Ford (Fury; Black River). Snowed in for days at...
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G. M. Ford, Author . Morrow $23.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-06-055480-4
Ford hits the ground running with his fourth solid Frank Corso novel (Fury
; Black River
; etc.). Someone has sprayed a modified Ebola
virus into a Seattle bus tunnel, killing more than 100 people. Journalist Corso promptly descends into the deadly
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G. M. Ford, Author . Morrow $16.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-055482-8
When Timothy Driver, who's serving life without parole in Meza Azul, America's most escape-proof prison, seizes control of the place and demands that Seattle true-crime writer Frank Corso come to Arizona to negotiate for the lives of 163...
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G. M. Ford, Author . Morrow $23.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-06-087442-1
Ford, the author of the Frank Corso mysteries (Fury
, etc.) and the Leo Waterman PI series (Cast in Stone
, etc.), stumbles in his first stand-alone. Paul Hardy, who was found near death in a railroad car seven years earlier, has spent the time
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G. M. Ford, Author Walker & Company $21.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3255-2
The plot of this sweaty adventure, Ford's fine first effort, is mostly a vehicle for its hero, a wisecracking PI who may be living in the suave Seattle of the 1990s but whose spirit harks back to the 1930s and '40s when men were men, women were...
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G. M. Ford, Author Walker & Company $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3267-5
Confirming the bright promise of Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?, Ford proves he's no one-book author with the second case for extremely likable, wisecracking Seattle PI Leo Waterman. A boating mentor from Waterman's youth, Heck Sundstrom, is critically...
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G. M. Ford, Author Avon Books $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-72761-2
Debut entry in the Leo Waterman series, starring a Seattle-based private eye with an off-beat sense of humor. (Oct.)
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G. M. Ford, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3299-6
Seattle PI Leo Waterman continues to deliver on the lively promise of his first appearance in Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca? In his third case, following Cast in Stone, Leo stumbles into a battle for the riches of a young pop star, Lukkas Terry, who...
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G. M. Ford, Author Avon Books $20 (281p) ISBN 978-0-380-97556-3
In his fourth outing, Seattle PI Leo Waterman (The Bum's Rush, 1997) is hired to save Bunky, a $360,000 prize Angus steer facing death and barbecue by a desperate steak house owner. Jack Del Fuego hopes to generate publicity for his bankrupt...
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G. M. Ford, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (280p) ISBN 978-0-380-97557-0
It's hard work trying to keep a series fresh, and in Ford's fifth novel about Seattle private detective Leo Waterman (Slow Burn, etc.) the strain shows. Most of the recurring jokes--about Leo's powerful family and their embarrassment about his work,
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G. M. Ford, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-97723-9
Lots of smooth, wiseacre talk powers this agreeable caper past two major shortcomings: a near-overpowering intro section and a woefully underdeveloped big-scam ending that falls seriously flat. Freelance sleuth Leo Waterman memorably rescues a...
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G. M. Ford, Author William Morrow & Company $23.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-06-087439-1
In the gritty sixth Frank Corso novel (after 2005's No Man's Land), Ford makes clever use of an actual 2003 unsolved case to create a pulse-pounding plot capped by a dramatic and chilling ending. Corso, an investigative journalist whose promising...
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G.M. Ford. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (284p) ISBN 978-1-47782-217-3
Ford (Chump Change) turns the traditional cops vs. robbers conflict on its head in this well-written thriller set in a nameless city. Grace Pressman has the ability to bring patients in comas back to the world of the conscious. Her mother, Eve...
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