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Scott William Carter is an American fiction writer. He writes in multiple genres, including fantasy, mystery, and young adult. Biography Carter was born in Minnesota and raised in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Before becoming a professional writer, Carter owned a bookstore, worked as a ski instructor, and a computer trainer. Carter attended the University of Oregon, graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Currently living in Oregon, he is married and is a father of two children, a daughter and a son. He won the 2011 Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature for his novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Garrison Gage mystery series, among other books. Bibliography Novels (Garrison Gage series) The Gray and Guilty Sea (2010) A Desperate Place for Dying (2012) The Lovely Wicked Rain (2014) A Shroud of Tattered Sails (2015) A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart (2017) Bury the Dead in Driftwood (2019) A Deep and Deadly Undertow (2020) A Cold and Shallow Shore (2022) Novels (Myron Vale series) Ghost Detective (2013) The Ghost Who Said Goodbye (2015) The Ghost, the Girl, and the Gold (2016) Novels (Karen Pantelli series) Throwaway Jane (2020) Lethal Beauty (2021) Novels (other) The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys (2010) President Jock, Vice President Geek (2011) Drawing a Dark Way: A Fantasy Adventure (2011) A Tale of Two Giants (2011) The Care and Feeding of Rubber Chickens (2011) Wooden Bones (2012) The Castle on the Hill at the Edge of the World (2019) Short story collections The Dinosaur Diaries and Other Tales Across Space and Time (2010) A Web of Black Widows (2010) The Man Who Made No Mistakes (2013) Short stories (incomplete) "The Liberators", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2004) Vol. 124, No. 4. "A Christmas in Amber", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2005) Vol. 125, No. 12. "Father Hagerman's Dog", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2007) Vol. 127, No 6. "The Bear Who Sang Opera", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2009) Vol. 129, No. 7 & 8. "The Android Who Became a Human Who Became an Android", Analog Science Fiction and Fact (2010) Vol. 130, No. 7 & 8. "A Witness to All That Was". Analog. 131 (7&8): 88–96. July–August 2011. References External links Scott William Carter's official homepage. Discover the Scott William Carter popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Scott William Carter books.
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Throwaway Jane
Scott William Carter<b>“Carter’s writing is on target.” Publisher’s Weekly</b><br> <br> Former FBI agent Karen Pantelli lives by a simple philosophy: never, ever care. Three y...
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Dead-Eyed Drifter
Scott William CarterHe hunts. He kills. He walks among us. Nobody knows he exists … until now. Former FBI agent turned fulltime drifter, Karen Pantelli pursues a promising lead on her long missing mo...
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Strange Ghosts
Scott William CarterEqual parts riveting and stirring, Carter takes a staple of campfires and rainy nights – the ghost story – into surprising new territory in this collection. No gore or gratuitous s...
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Everybody Loves a Hero
Scott William CarterWhat makes a hero? In these ten riveting tales of crime and suspense, take a thrilling journey from the backstreets of Chicago to the windy bluffs of the Oregon coast exploring tha...
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A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart
Scott William CarterThey find his body at the bottom of Heceta Head LighthouseEd Boone, a longtime volunteer who commits suicide rather than see his grim diagnosis to its bitter end. The strangeness o...
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The Dragon Lottery
Scott William Carter<b>Win the lottery? Congrats! You get to fight the dragonto the death!</b> Each summer, the kingdom of Dunbury holds a lottery. The prize? The right to face the Black ...
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The Ghost Who Said Goodbye
Scott William CarterEven the dead can die . . . the second in the riveting series about the private investigator who bridges both sides of the great divide. Charles Manson. Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dah...
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The Ghost, the Girl, and the Gold
Scott William CarterThe dead do not dream. A week before Christmas, John and Laura Ray storm into Myron's office, desperate to find their missing daughter. Money? They don't have any. Clues? They have...
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Ask Hagan
Scott William Carter<b>Ask Hagan anything. Anything at all. Even how to outwit a madman …</b> Once a promising young novelist with big literary dreams, John Winsley wakes up on the other ...
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The Dinosaur Diaries and Other Tales Across Space and Time
Scott William CarterIn this impressive collection, rising talent Scott William Carter showcases his considerable storytelling skills. Whether his words lead to the edges of known space, to the fringes...
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A Shroud of Tattered Sails
Scott William CarterA beached sailboat. A missing man. A distraught woman staggering ashore. There to greet herGarrison Gage, fulltime curmudgeon and parttime private investigator, who quickly finds h...
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A Deep and Deadly Undertow
Scott William CarterYears after his wife dies in a mafia hit gone wrong, Garrison Gage finally pieces together a life for himself in the Oregon coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs. Some days the cra...
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The Lovely Wicked Rain
Scott William CarterThey find him on the beach, shooting bullets into the sand.His name? Jeremiah Cooper, the son of the bullheaded high school football coach. Slight of build, soft of voice, he's got...
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Ghost Detective
Scott William CarterEverybody dies. Nobody leaves . . . Awardwinning author Scott William Carter returns with a spellbinding tale of a private investigator who bridges both sides of the great divide. ...
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A Cold and Shallow Shore
Scott William CarterGage hates birthdays. So when his daughter throws him a surprise party on the coldest night the Oregon coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs has seen in years, Gage finds himself in an e...
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Bury the Dead in Driftwood
Scott William CarterThey find her buried in driftwood. Harriet Abel never shows up for her appointment. Irritating as hell? Sure. It’s hard enough to work as a private investigator without potential c...
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The Castle on the Hill at the Edge of the World
Scott William CarterIf everybody would just leave Sam alone, she'd be perfectly happy hanging out in The Land Between, the undeveloped forest at the end of the street where she can pretend, at least f...
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Looking for Little Red
Scott William CarterOn a rainy night at a tiny Oregon college, a shadowy figure at the back of the hall interrupts Bullwick Farley's mythology lecture: "Little Red Riding Hood has done somethi...
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Lethal Beauty
Scott William Carter<b>Never mess with a woman with nothing left to lose.</b> Another state. Another city. Another deadend job. A stellar FBI agent until tragedy set her adrift, Karen Pan...