Darrin Atkins

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1999
  • Latest Book:
    June 2007
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Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • The Quitter

    "The Quitter: and other tales of employment" is a collection of short stories on employment. Each story describes the events surrounding my experiences with different companies and the corresponding personal events in my life. If I had a job or worke...

  • The End of Me

    There's a lot of sin out there and "The End of Me: and 11 other sinful stories" brings it all together. Meet the drug dealer in Vicious Alley. The demented drifters in Losing It. The runaway stockbroker in Dark City Nights. The hardened kidnappers ca...

  • The Crooked Mechanics

    "The Crooked Mechanics" rip off so many customers in their mechanic shop that, when the authorities close in, they pack up and escape across country in a truck. They finally end up in St. Louis and their last chance to escape in a plane fails miserab...

  • Find Me in the Fog

    Sometimes people get lost in their lives and they feel all alone. It seems like a fog has come over their world and made the rest of the population disappear. There is no one they can turn to and nobody can make the fog go away. It is up to them to f...

  • Two Short Stories

    Her Dark Blue Eyes is the story of Myra Tuttle, a young, energetic space commander who is called upon to defend her galaxy against the annihilating ways and destructive plans of the Murrys. Before she prepares for battle, she makes one last voyage...

  • You Always Lose

  • "You're Too Late Tamma"

    Chuck McCroskey is my new name. I changed it because that's the first step in my transformation. I was sick of my other life and how I lived and what I didn't do every single day. It was time to move on and get out of the wasted sense of existence th...

  • As Good As Dead

  • The Last Obsession

    He was obsessed with Claire from the day he met her in college. Time had no effect on him, and four years after graduation, his feelings remained unchanged and he continued to think of her every day. One morning, he left his life in Los Angeles and t...



  • About Lost Love

    Lost love is the worst kind of love because it's the love you get to experience for a short while and then you lose it and have to go through your life with the knowledge of how great it was. The hard part is trying to manage without your love and tr...

  • Hermits Rest

    I met a wonderful girl named Jessi when I lived at the Grand Canyon. I don't know how we drifted apart but I think it's like a lot of things in life where you don't know what's going on or why things are happening until it's all over. Now I can look ...

  • This Isn't for You

  • Where He's At

    Henry was leaving Stockton. He had lived there for too long and knew it was time to start over elsewhere. Seventeen years at the flour mill on Industrial Drive had worn away his heart and soul and had led to his pessimistic outlook on life. There wer...

  • Don't Leave Lily

    Lily, Lily, Lily. Her name goes round and round in my heart and in my head and all I can do is regret the fact that we never had a chance to have a relationship together. She had been in love with someone else and even though we spent a fabulous day ...

  • I Lost My Love Tonight

    I nearly lost my love and its the worst thing ever to have to go through and I hope that it never happens to you because its such a terrible thought, to have even the slightest chance of your love getting away from you, of someone so very special and...

  • You Weren't Here

    Sometimes you want someone to be there for you when you need them and they aren't and your world just falls apart and the skies fall and the earth crumbles underneath you and everything in life becomes too difficult to handle. You hope that it isn't ...

  • Come Back Claire

    The obsession is over. Come back Claire. Come back to when we believed we could do anything, when we were young and all the world was before us and nothing stood in our way. Come back Claire. Don't you remember me? I haven't changed at all. Come back...

  • Divided

    After graduating from high school, my friends and I didn't have much of a clue as to what we would do with the rest of our lives. All we knew was that we wanted to have fun and stay together and that's exactly what we did, at least for a while anyway...

  • Still in Hollywood

    When I moved to Los Angeles the first time, I was able to intern at a movie magazine and live in Beverly Hills and everything was great and fabulous. The second time I lived there wasn't quite as glamorous, but it was no less interesting because I me...



  • What's So Great about You?

    Sometimes when you move away you hope that things are wonderful in the new city and that you meet people who are friendly and supportive. And you believe that you can start over and do things better because you feel that your decision to move away an...

  • The Picture of You, Diahanna Bugarin

    Min was ready to get married and wanted to get married and when Dean showedup he was all that she wanted in a man and maybe a little more, only shecouldn't see how great he was because of the personal issues she needed toresolve. She could tell that ...

  • The Money You Took from Me

    The money you took from me is all that I can think about now that you have disappeared into the darkness and the void of society. The money you took from me was all that I used to have and my entire future was wrapped up in that wad of ten-dollar bil...

  • Cooked Chickens Falling from the Sky

    Cooked Chickens Falling from the Sky is a collection of short, offbeat children's stories, with fine, wonderful illustrations and interesting, unusual tales. From “One-on-One with Mister Tree” to “Nature Has a Funny Way,” these stories should...

  • Cooked Chickens Falling from the Sky: And Other Illustrated Children's Stories

    Cooked Chickens Falling from the Sky is a collection of short, offbeat children's stories, with fine, wonderful illustrations and interesting, unusual tales. From One-on-One with Mister Tree to Nature Has a Funny Way, these stories should entertain, ...

  • The Road That You Take: Part One

    Which path will you choose? Which road will you take? Do you want to be like college students Aileen and John T., who care only for their sexual desires for each other, who betray their friends and sink into a pit of deception and denial with Leila i...

  • The Road That You Take

    Which path will you choose? Which road will you take? Do you want to be like college students Aileen and John T., who care only for their sexual desires for each other, who betray their friends and sink into a pit of deception and denial with Leila i...

  • Away from Lisa Larkin

    Cynical reporter Joshua Sloat accepts an unpaid investigative assignment, a seemingly typical case of a man leaving his wife for someone more glamorous and interesting. With his newspaper job at stake, he follows all leads in the matter of Ana's husb...

  • The New Toyan Ranch

    Dora Toyan fell in love up in the mountains, fell in love with a man named Theodore, a man instrumental in helping her and her family build the New Toyan Ranch and construct it to the exact designs of the Toyan ranch that preceded it by nearly twenty...

  • False Relationships

    Watch the man named Steem run away in terror from the prospect of the police capturing him and charging him with murder plus mayhem. See his young lover Jessica C. wait for his return, hoping for romantic days together at the Hotel del Coronado. Then...



  • The Bad Side of San Francisco

    Just south of downtown San Francisco there's a place called Petrero Hill and an address on Twentieth Street and a house wherein lives a seductive, irresistible woman named Judy Tipton, a spitfire knitwear designer full of grandiose ideas and encourag...

  • The Famous Liar

    Upon her father's death, a woman named Jill requests Joshua Sloat's assistance when her stepmother challenges the will and trusts. The stepmother's large financial contributions to mayoral candidates result in her obtaining free legal representation ...

  • San Francisco Crime Stories

  • People Die in the Tenderloin

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Darrin Atkins has published 33 books.

Darrin Atkins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, People Die in the Tenderloin, was published in June 2007.

The first book by Darrin Atkins, The Quitter, was published in December 1999.

No. Darrin Atkins does not write books in series.
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