Books by Stephen Gallagher and Complete Book Reviews

Stephen Gallagher, Author . Subterranean Press $40 (276p) ISBN 978-1-59606-017-3
In Gallagher's white-knuckle thriller, his first full-length novel since Red, Red Robin (1995), several experimental drugs have been pilfered from a North Carolina research lab and suspicion points to employee Rachel Young. Manager John Bishop...
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Stephen Gallagher, Author . Subterranean $40 (177p) ISBN 978-1-59606-071-5
British author Gallagher's unrelenting novel of terror, set on an unprepossessing stretch of English coast, moves at a breakneck pace. Car dealer Frank Tanner's wife, Carol, is missing. Carol's 26-year-old sister, Molly Gideon, a...
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Stephen Gallagher, Author . Crown/Shaye Areheart $24.95 (366p) ISBN 978-0-307-38280-1
Set mainly in late 19th-century England, Gallagher's ingenious horror thriller revolves around the extraordinary life—and death—of Tom Sayers, a real-life bare-knuckle fighter who, after retiring, briefly traveled the country...
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Stephen Gallagher, Author . Subterranean $40 (250p) ISBN 978-1-59606-114-9
Veteran British horror writer Gallagher (The Kingdom of Bones ) shows off his versatility in this collection of 11 stories and a review of Joseph Payne Brennan's Nine Horrors and a Dream . Among the best are “The Back of His Hand,”...
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Stephen Gallagher, Author Tor Books $0 (255p) ISBN 978-0-312-93205-3
British writer Gallagher follows his crime/horror novel Valley of Lights with this tepid thriller centering on the illegal drug-testing activities of a multinational pharmaceutical firm called Risinger-Genoud. After having been accidentally knocked...
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Stephen Gallagher, Author Tor Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85006-7
An English detective has lost his mind and is plunging into madness as this engrossing and fast-reading thriller unfolds. Knowing that Johnny Mays's ``methods'' violate English law as well police policies, partner and boyhood friend Nick Frazier...
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Stephen Gallagher, Author Ballantine Books $15 (376p) ISBN 978-0-345-38512-3
Plucked from her German mother and forced to live with a chilly English father who's often away from their ramshackle house on a lonely stretch of coast, 11-year-old Marianne Cadogan sticks like an unwanted burr to Ryan O'Donnell, the rough-living...
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Stephen Gallagher, Author Ballantine Books $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-38644-1
British writer Gallagher (Nightmare, with Angel) has written a smashing serial-killer thriller that embraces all the conventions of the genre while adding several page-turning twists and subtexts of its own. When, in order to protect her married...
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Stephen Gallagher, Author, Chris Moore, Illustrator, Stephen Gallagher, Text by (Art/Photo Books) Paper Tiger (UK) $29.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-85585-849-7
Two new volumes of illustrations from Sterling include Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It, written with Laura Brodian Freas, which encompasses a range of vivid sci-fi, fantasy and portraiture (with signature Freasian backgrounds) by the 10-time Hugo...
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Stephen Gallagher. Crown, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-40664-4
Set in England in 1912, this masterful whodunit from Gallagher (Red, Red Robin) introduces Sebastian Becker, a former policeman and Pinkerton agent who now works as the special investigator to the Masters of Lunacy, looking into cases involving any “
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Stephen Gallagher. Subterranean, $40 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59606-779-0
British author Gallagher gives Sebastian Becker another puzzle worthy of his quirky sleuth’s acumen in his outstanding third pre-WWI mystery (after 2012’s The Bedlam Detective). As the special investigator to the Lord Chancellor’s Visitor in Lunacy,
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Stephen Gallagher, read by Michael Page. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-61120-666-1
Gallagher's new thriller, set in England in 1912, introduces Sebastian Becker, a resourceful, underpaid government detective charged with investigating the finances of rich eccentrics. Responding to claims that wealthy Sir Owain Lancaster lost his...
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