Gaskill: 40 books

The women in the life of private investigator Niccolo Fitzhugh aren’t making things easy for him at all. His mother has told Father O’Malley, the priest at St. Rita, he would investigate—for free—the case of Aileen O’Connor, who lost $50,000 to con man Benedict St. Giles and who believes...

Think your husband is unfaithful? Call Fitz. Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh is the retired cop who runs Fitzhugh Investigations, whose business revolves around digging up dirt for local divorce lawyers. He knows, maybe better than anyone, how an unfaithful male thinks. After all, his police...

WINNER OF THE 2018 SILVER FALCHION AWARD FOR BEST SUSPENSE! A Saturday of ballistic therapy at the Fawcettville gun range turns bloody for PI Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh when local social worker and community theater star Anna Maria Ippolito is found murdered in her home. It's personal too—he's...

What’s scarier for Rust Belt PI Niccolo Fitzhugh? A dead body in the back of burning car or waking up in bed with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman after a blistering drunk?  Fitz’s life has been turned upside the death of his beloved wife Gracie. Outside of work, he’s holed up at home alone,...

* Terrain that's hazard-free and easy on the dog paws * Guidebook includes what to pack for your dog -- the Ten Canine Essentials and the Doggy First-Aid Kit A native of Texas, Melissa Gaskill has spent more than 20 years hiking and camping with her dogs all over the Lonestar State. In this...

A thrilling road trip across a broken America. Through the ethereal window rippling above the sun-scorched pavement, Sadie Bishop would sometimes catch glimpses of a mysterious world, a desert landscape, punctuated by giant fissures that cleaved the land. What wonders haunted that interior...

Vassath Rider is the first of a fantasy trilogy by Paul Gaskill situated in the land of Pharia. From living in a small village where knowledge of the King's dictatorial reign is unknown, Oracus' ordinary life is turned upside down when he forges a bond with a Lavorian and becomes its Rider....

In this short story, Susan returns to a Southern Ohio cabin to hide the evidence of a twenty-year affair with Benjamin, Miriam's husband. When Miriam shows up at the cabin, both women learn the terrible cost love can exact.

When Marcus Henning came to the Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette in 1982, he was looking for the one story that would change his career, give him credibility after screwing up a story in another town. Instead, he fell in love —and lost— the fiery redhead Kay James when she married an Air Force fighter...

Barns are burning on farms all around Jubilant Falls, Ohio —but that’s the least of newspaper editor Addison McIntyre’s problems. The daughter of  Golgotha College president Dr. Seaford Thorn has come up missing — along with $500,000 from the college’s endowment fund. When Addison’s...

The news is just as slow as the lazy, final days of summer in Jubilant Falls when Addison McIntyre drives out to the Lunatic Fringe farm to interview Russian born Ekaterina Bolodenka for a story on her award-winning weaving and the llamas and alpacas she raises there. But there's something...

There are blondes — and then there are high maintenance blondes.  And Eve Dahlgren was a high maintenance blonde, even forty years ago in high school. When Eve ends up dead, and Journal-Gazette publisher Earlene Whitelaw is arrested for her murder, it looks like an open and shut case....

The Emerald Pairing is the second novel of Paul Gaskill's young-adult fantasy trilogy. What Oracus believed to be true, wasn’t. He had lived his whole life in a village deep in the forest that was unbeknown to the King. But when Oracus became a Rider, his destiny changed.  Oracus...

Perhaps nothing about nature calls to us as deeply as wild animals. To see an enormous whale leaping out of the water, the eerily human eyes of a gorilla, or the comical waddle of a penguin; to hear the ethereal howl of a wolf or majestic roar of a lion—these experiences change us. Around the world,...