Gary Earl Ross

The Scavenger’s Daughter

A searing family drama of Alzheimer’s, madness, and murder by the Edgar Award-winning author of Matter of Intent.

When John Pickett is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, his children find themselves in a virtual war with their stepmother. At every turn she thwarts their efforts to secure John’s care and the family’s security. Finally she resorts to a shocking act of violence. Wading into family conflicts and long-buried secrets, Detective Maxine Travis tries to piece together what made Ruthie Pickett point a gun at her husband and pull the trigger.

Shimmerville: Tales Macabre and Curious

Welcome to Shimmerville . . . The Urban Refugee Camp sits in the shadow of a crystal gray city. Inside are ghosts in cast-off clothing, wrapped in stolen blankets and damp sleeping bags, human detritus left in the wake of a changing world and unseen by the city that grows with no thought of the bones beneath its cornerstones. For the almost dead, there is nowhere else to go . . . An old man and his daughter appears at the gate one evening in early October. The air is just beginning to grow its winter teeth and the homeless inside are starting to realize how flimsy their clothing really is. The old mans voice is rich and thick and sweet, like Turkish coffee with too much raw sugar. The camp has never had a storyteller before….

Blackbird Rising: A Novel of the American Spirit

At the dawn of the 20th Century, the first city lit by electricity—Buffalo, New York—hosts a dazzling World’s Fair to showcase America’s march into the future. Unknown to organizers, the bold grandsons of a runaway slave plan to conquer the sky during a fateful presidential visit. They intend to show the world that nothing is more powerful than mankind’s oldest dreams-flight and freedom-meeting imagination in an age of possibility.