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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1994
  • Latest Book:
    September 2015
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Full Series List in Order

An Evan Horne Mystery

1 - Solo Hand (Feb-1994)
2 - Death of a Tenor Man (Oct-1995)
3 - The Sound of the Trumpet (Dec-1996)
4 - Bird Lives! (Jun-2000)
5 - Looking for Chet Baker (Mar-2002)
6 - Shades of Blue (Feb-2008)
7 - Fade to Blue (Apr-2011)

Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • America's brightest jazz pianist, Evan Horne never thought things could get worse after a car accident leaves him with an injured hand and no career, until his ex-wife Sharon pleads for help in a blackmail plot against his former boss, Lonnie Cole. R...



  • SIDEMAN BLUES He played in Vegas. Then he died there--his body found at the edge of the desert with a broken neck and a bloodstream full of smack. Now, thirty-seven years later, Evan Horne is looking into the death of tenor sax player Wardell Gray...



  • The sound and the fury...

    On a dark night in Pennsylvania, a jazz legend met his death.  But now, in the heat and light of Las Vegas, the sound of Clifford Brown's soaring trumpet is coming back to life.  Because a man named Evan Horne, wh...



  • THE DEATH OF COOL A string of murders hits the jazz community like a sour note. Its victims are those musicians who've traded the traditional sounds of the greats like Charlie "Bird" Parker for the newer, more marketable "smooth" jazz. But "Bird" ...



  • NOT JUST A PIANO MAN Pianist Evan Horne's European interlude lands him a gig in Amsterdam, where the old jazz clubs are alive and well. But here he unexpectedly finds himself reliving the last days of legendary blues trumpeter Chet Baker, who died...



  • After several months of successful work in London and Amsterdam with American expatriate Fletcher Paige, musician Evan Horne returns to the states and settles in the San Francisco Bay Area. There he reunites with his girlfriend, FBI agent, Andie Lawr...



  • Jazz pianist Evan Horne, settled into the San Francisco jazz scene, takes a gig in Los Angeles, where he’s offered his most unusual job yet. Mega movie star Ryan Stiles hires Evan to teach him to look like he’s playing piano for an upcoming film ...



  • The year is 1968. The liberal reforms of Czechoslovakia’s new leader, Alexander Dubcek, have outraged the Kremlin and now, 250,000 Warsaw Pact forces are amassed on the borders. For American intelligence, the situation is worsened when their prime ...



  • ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE MAN IN RED SQUARE In the grand tradition of unforgettable Cold War spy thrillers, Bill Moody's The Man in Red Square sends you on an exciting journey into history, politics, and deception as Washington and Moscow jockey to pull...






  • Mood Swings offers the reader a behind the scenes look into the world of jazz through the eyes of nine musicians. Like the music itself, the stories range from humor, joy, and success, to failure, and at times, even danger and darkness, as each music...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bill Moody has published 10 books.

Bill Moody does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mood Swings, was published in September 2015.

The first book by Bill Moody, Solo Hand, was published in February 1994.

Yes. Bill Moody has 1 series.