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Ed Lynskey is an American poet, critic, and novelist, mostly of crime fiction. He was born in 1956 in Washington, D.C. where he still lives and works. Lynskey received his B.A. (1979) and M.A. (1984) from George Mason University as well as did post-graduate study at The George Washington University. He writes five mystery series, including the P.I. Frank Johnson Mystery Series, the Isabel & Alma Trumbo Cozy Mystery Series, the Piper & Bill Robin Cozy Mystery Series, the Hope Jones (Nozy Cat) Cozy Mystery Series, the Ginny Dove Cozy Mystery Series, and the Juno Patchen Cozy Mystery Series. His creative work has been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, San Diego Union-Tribune, London Free Press, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Lansing State Journal, The Virginian-Pilot, Tucson Citizen, and Nashville City Paper. Lynskey's work has been favorably compared to that of Loren D. Estleman, James Lee Burke, Daniel Woodrell, Bill Pronzini, and Robert Crais. His essays have been reprinted by Gale Research and Gryphon Books. He has written reviews for The New York Times, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, Kansas City Star, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Roanoke Times, Des Moines Register, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), and Columbus Dispatch. His speculative literature has appeared in Strange Horizons, Chizine, and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. His numerous poems have appeared in such venues as The Atlantic Monthly, American Poetry Review, and Chicago Review. He won the 1993 Denny C. Plattner Appalachian Heritage Award in Poetry from Berea College, Kentucky. His work has been anthologized by St. Martin’s Press, University of Virginia Press, Kent State University Press, and Storyline Press. His poem "April Sashays in Lime Heels" received an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, editor. His stories were cited in Hardcore Hardboiled, Todd Robinson, Otto Penzler, editors, Kensington Publishing Group, 2008 and Sex, Thugs, Rock & Roll, Todd Robinson, editor, Kensington Publishing Group, 2009. Bibliography Novels Private Investigator Frank Johnson Mystery series The Dirt-Brown Derby (2006) The Blue Cheer (2007) Pelham Fell Here (2008) - (actually first novel in series published out of sequence) Troglodytes (2010) The Zinc Zoo (2011) After the Big Noise (2014) Death Car (2021) Bent Halo (2022) Clover (2022) Fluke (2023) Quarry (2023) Forge (2023) Lure (2023) Pawn (2023) Noel (2023) Grits (2023) Blaze (2023) Madge (2023) Nymph (2023) Roz (2023) Snatch (2023) Crib (2024) Traffic (2024) Framed (2024) Tyrst (2024) Iceman (2024) Isabel and Alma Trumbo Cozy Mystery Series Quiet Anchorage (2011) The Cashmere Shroud (2013) The Ladybug Song (2014) The Amber Top Hat (2015) Sweet Betsy (2015) Murder in a One-Hearse Town (2016) Vi's Ring (2017) Heirloom (2017) A Big Dill (2018) Eve's Win (2019) To Dye For (2021) Fowl Play (2022) Robin and Bill Piper Cozy Mystery Series The Corpse Wore Gingham (2015) Fur the Win (2016) Juno Patchen Cozy Mystery Series Berried Truths (2020) Hope Jones Cozy Mystery Series (written under the pseudonym Lyn Key) Nozy Cat 1 (2016) Nozy Cat 2 (2017) Nozy Cat 3 (2018) Nozy Cat 4 (2019) Ginny Dove Cozy Mystery Series (written under the pseudonym Lea Charles) Found Key (2018) Easy Peasy (2021) Stand Alone Novels Lake Charles (2011, republished 2018) - Appalachian noir title Ask the Dice (2011) - hit man noir title Blood Diamonds (2012) - diamond heist title The Quetzal Motel (2012) - science fiction title Topaz Moon (2014) - suburban noir title Wrong Orbits (2015) - suburban noir title Cops Like Us (2020) - police novel set in Washington, D.C. Short story collections Out of Town a Few Days (2004) A Clear Path to Cross (2008) Smoking on Mount Rushmore (2013) Continuing characters Frank Johnson - Private detective living in Pelham, Virginia. Isabel & Alma Trumbo - Sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia. Piper & Bill Robins - Married couple sleuths living in Beverly Park, Virginia. Hope Jones - Single mother and sleuth living with her daughter Stacey in Sweet Springs, Virginia. Ginny Dove - Single mother and sleuth living with her son Boone in Canaan, Virginia. Juno Patchen - Single mother and sleuth living with her son Chip in Cat's Paw, Virginia. External links Works by or about Ed Lynskey at Internet Archive Ed Lynskey's GoodReads Author Page Ed Lynskey's 1983 Master Thesis "Harry Crews' South The Blue Cheer William G. Contento's "The FictionMags Index's" List of short stories and articles by Ed Lynskey Archived August 29, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Announcement for 1993 Denny C. Plattner Appalachian Heritage Awards, First Place, Poetry, Ed Lynskey Ed Lynskey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Sex, Thugs, and Rock & Roll story citation. Author interview at Writer Unboxed, August 3, 2007, with Kathleen Bolton. Locus Index for Science Fiction list of short stories by Ed Lynskey 2007 Starred Review in Booklist for The Blue Cheer.. Discover the Ed Lynskey popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ed Lynskey books.
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Fur the Win
Ed LynskeyPiper and Bill Robins, a retired couple, are enjoying their leisure years spent in the tranquil, leafy Washington, D.C. suburb of Beverly Park, Virginia. Bill watches “Pawn Stars” ...
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Murder in a One-Hearse Town
Ed LynskeyFor their next mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the ace sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, are called in by Sheriff Roscoe Fox to investigate the puzzling murder t...
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The Ladybug Song
Ed LynskeyPhyllis Garner, the kooky and funny bag lady, refuses to accept her best friend Ladybug Miles’ death is an accidental drowning in the Cornet River. The blustery, knowitall Sheriff ...
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Quarry
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a case from a distraught woman who suspects her husband of 10 years is having an affair with his female office manager. B...
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Cops Like Us
Ed LynskeyIt's every cop's worst nightmare: a violent felon he put behind bars paroles out and comes after him and his family. Five years ago, homicide sergeant Ismail O'Dwyer arrested Boyo ...
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The Blue Cheer
Ed LynskeyAfter surviving a bad experience in his hometown, P.I. Frank Johnson moves away to Scarab, West Virginia, drawn by the promise of its leisurely days and the lure of its tranquil le...
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Crib
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating the mysterious gunshots hitting the windows in Madison Lopat's apartment. The second big case he accepts i...
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After the Big Noise
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a pair of new cases just before the 2005 yearend holidays. The reader gets two mysteries for the price of one as he stays...
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Clover
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts another missingperson case, this time the gorgeous 19yearold Clover Digges who has vanished from her home in Middleburg, ...
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Nozy Cat 1
Lyn KeyFollowing her lifelong dream, Hope Jones opens the Brontë Bookshop in the small town of Sweet Springs tucked away in the rolling, green hills of the Virginia piedmont. Her best fri...
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Sweet Betsy
Ed LynskeyFor their next outing, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the ace sister sleuths living in small town Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, are planting marigolds in their flowerbed when Alma unearths a...
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Madge
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up the missingperson case of Knox Yowell, a machinist who operates a metal lathe in a job shop. One August morning, Knox le...
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The Dirt-Brown Derby
Ed LynskeyPI Frank Johnson is hired by Mary Taliaferro, a wealthy aristocrat owning a horse estate near Middleburg, Virginia. Mary's teenage daughter Emily has died in a riding tragedy. The ...
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Found Key
Lea CharlesGinny Dove, a military widow, runs the Paisley Apron Diner in the small town of Sweet Springs, Virginia, located amid the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains. She's drawn into a homic...
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The Cashmere Shroud
Ed LynskeyDown in the sleepy, quaint Virginia small town of Quiet Anchorage, murder is the last thing any person living there would expect to happen on a summer day. Sisters Isabel and Alma ...
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Blaze
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up the homicide case of Cedric Barker, the bouncer at Aphrodite's Crib, a local strip club. Engaged to the exstripper, Blaz...
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Pawn
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts another infidelity case, this time Bunny Weld suspects her loutish husband, Joe Vic Sackett, is having an affair with his...
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Lure
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a missing person case when Cain Milsap seeks out Frank's assistance to find Milsap's 28yearold daughter, Brett. Of course...
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Berried Truth
Ed LynskeyBestselling and awardwinning mystery author Ed Lynskey introduces a new cozy mystery series set in the small town of Cat's Paw, Virginia. Plucky and resourceful, Juno Patchen ...
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Roz
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating the violent death of Roz Fleming. A local prostitute, she's been found dead from two headshots behind the ...
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The Zinc Zoo
Ed LynskeyOlder and wiser, P.I. Frank Johnson, in his fifth outing, has moved to the Washington, D.C. suburbs where he lives with his fiancé Dreema Atkins. Times are lean. No new P.I. cases ...
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Snatch
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating to find the vintage 1977 Music Man StingRay bass guitar stolen from the home of his client, Sybil Gleason....
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Easy Peasy
Lea CharlesGinny Dove, a military widow, runs the Paisley Apron Diner in the small town of Sweet Springs, Virginia, located amid the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains. She's drawn into the hom...
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Death Car
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts an infidelity case where Webb Lohr believes his wife Danica is having an affair. Then Webb is found murdered in his car a...
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Forge
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts his first birthparents search for his gorgeous, 23yearold client, Nikki Colvin, whose adoptive parents are deceased. She ...
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Traffic
Ed LynskeyP.I. Frank Johnson investigates an old hitandrun accident one year later in his next hardboiled outing. Vivian St. John believes her sister Gwen's death while jogging on a remote s...
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Nozy Cat 4
Lyn KeyHope Jones operates the Brontë Bookshop in the hamlet of Sweet Springs, Virginia. Her best friend and business partner Peggy Sue Roswell assists Hope along with Stacey, her smart, ...
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Noel
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts the cold case homicide of 18yearold Noel Fryer, occurring three years ago in his hometown of Pelham, Virginia. She worked...
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Pelham Fell Here
Ed Lynskey"Ed Lynskey's new novel PELHAM FELL HERE is a delight. With a plot as complex as your grandmother's crocheted doilies, Mr. Lynskey creates a portrait of the rural hill country that...
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Troglodytes
Ed LynskeyWhen American diplomat Sylvester Mercedes flies into Ankara, Turkey on what is supposed to be a normal business trip, he mysteriously vanishes from his hotel room. With her husband...
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The Amber Top Hat
Ed LynskeyQuiet Anchorage, Virginia, is just like any other small town but with one notable difference: the dead bodies keep turning up. Fortunately, Sheriff Roscoe Fox, who never met a suga...
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Nymph
Ed LynskeyFor his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating the violent death of Lark Turnbull. A local prostitute, she has drowned in her motel room bathtub while in...