Clark Howard

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1973
  • Latest Book:
    June 2020
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Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Last Contract

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    A hit man tries to make a clean break from his murderous career in this chilling novel from an award-winning author.   He has no police record, not even a traffic ticket. But he’s killed twenty-seven people during his career as a professional...

  • Six Against the Rock

  • The Wardens

    The decades-spanning saga of a woman’s life in a family of prison wardens -- and among the criminals they guard -- by a Spur Award"nominated author.   Dru is the daughter of a warden, the first in a long line keeping watch over a local priso...

  • Animals

    in More Mystery Cats

    Cats and crime make an irresistible combination in this second volume of Mystery Cats. Bestselling author Lilian Jackson Braun uses her favorite breed, the Siamese, to chill us with a tale of a sinister violin-playing villain who gets his comeuppance...

  • The Last One to Cry

    in Master's Choice: Volume II

    An outstanding array of crime fiction by some of today's leading authors is accompanied by short stories from the acclaimed writers who inspired them and features works by Ian Rankin, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgins Clark, Evan Hunter, Edgar Allan Po...

  • Dirt Rich

    This saga about the building of an oil empire and one man’s personal journey is “wonderful . . . A truly exciting novel” (Orlando Sentinel).   After Sam Sheridan returns home from the World War I battlefront, he receives an ...

  • Quick Silver

    An “intense, deeply haunting” saga about love, money, and murder, set amid Nevada’s mining and gambling booms (Publishers Weekly).   In the aftermath of World War I, three veterans -- Mike, Jim, and Buck -- meet a seductive woman named Rub...

  • Hard City

    The searing novel of a brutal boyhood in 1940s Chicago -- and a young man walking the knife’s edge between a life of crime and a brighter future.The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Richie grows up in poverty and hardship. His adolescence...

  • Brothers in Blood



  • City Blood

    In Chicago, the death of a topless dancer leads Detective Joe Kelly and his partner, Nick Bianco, to the local mob. An investigation which costs the life of one of them and draws the survivor into a liaison with the other's widow. ...

  • Love's Blood

  • Horn Man

    in Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Crowded Lives and Other Stories of Desperation

  • Challenge the Widow-Maker and Other Stories of People in Peril

    Challenge the Widow-Maker is about ordinary people whose pride helps them survive. Among the 12 tough but compassionate investigations into the human condition is Custer's Ghost, in which one of the last survivors of Little Bighorn finds closure afte...

  • Manila Burning

    in Best American Mystery Stories 2009

    Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring "gritty tales told with panache," this is a "must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories" (Booklist)....

  • Clark Howard Collected Stories - 1960s

    Clark Howard has written 16 novels, and six books of non-fiction. However, Howard didn't start out as a novelist. He started out as a short story writer, and he remains a short story writer. He has won numerous awards for his stories, including the ...

  • The Arm

    An ambitious gambler may lose it all in this novel by an Edgar Award"winning “superlative storyteller” (Publishers Weekly).He was known as Cully the Arm -- the best crapshooter in Chicago. Life was a game of both skill and luck, and he’d made...

  • Challenge the Widow-Maker

    A collection of short fiction, including an Edgar Award"nominated story, about hard-luck characters and the human instinct to survive.   A survivor of Little Bighorn faces down the resulting trauma in the decades following the bloody battle. A...

  • Crowded Lives

    Gritty, suspenseful short fiction about criminals and other characters on the edge from an Edgar Award"winning author.   “Not all Howard’s heroes are ex-cons, but they might as well be. They’ve all been around the block, made more than t...



  • The Doomsday Squad

    A gritty, action-packed novel about a World War II suicide mission that goes sideways from a “superlative storyteller” (Publishers Weekly).In the midst of World War II, a Japanese submarine base must be destroyed. But someone needs to draw enemy ...

  • The Hunters

    A hunting trip turns into a manhunt in this chilling predator-versus-prey thriller from an Edgar Award"winning author.   Four guys from the suburbs are about to set out on a hunting trip. Wes is an architectural draftsman with a secret. Leo ha...

  • The Killings

    Two LAPD detectives are at odds over a horrifying case in this “taut shocker” of a novel by an Edgar Award"winning author (The Boston Globe).   A pair of twins have been brutally murdered, and Los Angeles detectives George Cascade and Ed F...

  • The Last Great Death Stunt

    One team of daredevils is planning the ultimate death stunt finale in this novel by a “superlative storyteller” (Publishers Weekly).   A team of professional stunt performers are likely to lose their livelihoods as a new law goes into effect...

  • Mark the Sparrow

    A suspenseful novel about the last-minute battle to save a man on death row and the uproar surrounding his case as his time runs out . . .   Weldon Whitmen was arrested for committing a series of robberies and bizarre sex crimes w...

  • A Movement Toward Eden

    A wealthy man has been abducted -- but it’s not his money the kidnappers are after -- in this inventive thriller by an Edgar Award"winning author.Devlin’s beat is usually organized crime, but now he’s been called to the home of Jennifer Keyes...

  • Siberia 10

    As the Vietnam War rages, blood will be shed at a stateside Marine Corps prison, in this novel by a “superlative storyteller” (Publishers Weekly).Siberia 10 is a military prison in California, and tensions are coming to a slow boil within its wal...

  • Summit Kill

    One man fights to foil a wild plot for worldwide destruction in this action-packed thriller from “a superlative storyteller” (Publishers Weekly).Herr Inman has a plan and the resources to pull it off.First there will be five assassinations of pow...

  • Traces of Mercury

    A small-town doctor copes with an escalating medical mystery in this thriller by a “superlative storyteller” (Publishers Weekly).Lee Madrigal became a doctor in spite of his difficult working-class upbringing, with a mother who died young and a f...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Clark Howard has published 28 books.

Clark Howard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Challenge the Widow-Maker, was published in June 2020.

The first book by Clark Howard, Last Contract, was published in January 1973.

No. Clark Howard does not write books in series.
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