Gerald Duff

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1994
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Graveyard Working

    Two elderly East Texas sisters who have lived together all their lives and have learned the hateful, necessary contours of their shared existence gather with townspeople for the annual cleanup of the graveyard where family, friends and lovers lie bur...

  • Memphis Ribs

    It's May in Memphis, and four bloody murders occur on the eve of the International BBQ Contest and the Cotton Carnival: a conventioneer is stabbed at an ATM machine, a gang leader and his girlfriend are executed, and a wealthy local businessman is ki...

  • Snake Song

  • Fire Ants

    Publisher’s Weekly hailed the “wit and subtlety” in Gerald Duff’s fiction as “simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon,” and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazetter said “Gerald Duff’s dialogue is among the best being...

  • Blue Sabine

    Blue Sabine is a story of five generations of women in the same family, told in their voices, along with those of some men of Holt blood. It is set along the Sabine River, which divides the state of Texas from Louisiana and the Deep South. From 1867 ...

  • Dirty Rice

    In the midst of the Great Depression, minor league baseball thrives in small-town South Louisiana, where the Evangeline League, named in honor of Longfellow's heroine, draws hundreds to dirt fields and grandstands in places like Jeanerette, Abbev...

  • Decoration Day: And Other Stories

    Decoration Day and Other Stories ranges in locale from the piney woods of Deep East Texas, to the mean streets of Memphis, to the suburbs of Washington, DC. Highly comic and deeply serious, the collection reaches from the late 19th century to the ...

  • Angler's Paradise Fish-Cabin Dance of Love

    In The Angler’s Paradise Fish Cabin Dance of Love (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), a lonely middle-aged pipe-fitter of the Texas Gulf Coast works himself up to acting out his presiding fantas...

  • Apple and the Aspirin Tablet

    In The Apple and the Aspirin Tablet (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), war is raging worldwide, and a young boy entices his sister into biting into an apple in which he’s concealed an aspirin. ...



  • Bad Medicine

    In Bad Medicine (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), a Baptist preacher takes a group of Gulf Coast amateurs on a bobcat hunt in the Big Thicket of East Texas, and they are confronted by a band of ...

  • Believing in Memphis

    In Believing in Memphis (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), a ruined ex-songwriter on his way down, literally and figuratively, from Nashville to Memphis picks up two hitchhiking female singers, A...

  • Bliss of Solitude

    In The Bliss of Solitude (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), an aged character actor living in the Florida retirement home for motion picture personnel demonstrates that he’s still in love with ...

  • Charm City

    In Charm City (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), a lonely divorced insurance salesman in Baltimore attends a poetry reading, decides he can do that sort of thing, too, and begins the process of l...

  • Fire Ants and Other Stories

    Publisher’s Weekly hailed the “wit and subtlety” in Gerald Duff’s fiction as “simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon,” and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazetter said “Gerald Duff’s dialogue is among the best being...

  • Maryland, My Maryland

    In Maryland, My Maryland (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), on the way to the Antietam, MD battleground in 1862, a common soldier in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia is one of three from the sam...

  • Mouth Full of Money

    In A Mouth Full of Money (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), a brother and sister are sent by their mother to fetch a jug of milk from a neighbor, and are confronted by the local madman on a lonel...

  • Officer Responding

    In The Officer Responding (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), a policewoman answers a call on Love Circle in Nashville and discovers the domestic disturbance involves a nerdy classmate from her ol...

  • Perfect Man

    In A Perfect Man (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), a churchgoing upright lady in Tennessee must find a way to raise bail money for her lowlife and mentally challenged son who’s in jail for mis...

  • Redemption

    In Redemption (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), an elderly woman recounts the nineteenth century duel she witnessed between her father, a Baptist preacher, and an impudent young man smitten with...



  • Texas Wherever You Look

    In Texas Wherever You Look (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), at the end of the Civil War, a family moves from Louisiana into Texas, looking for better farmland and an improved life. The father i...

  • Way a Blind Man Tracks Light

    In The Way a Blind Man Tracks Light (a selection from the short story collection Fire Ants and Other Stories by Gerald Duff), an older man recounts how he lost his sight in a knife fight in a Beaumont, Texas bordello, and what his plight has taught h...

  • Memphis Mojo

    J.W. Ragsdale, a failed Mississippi cotton farmer turned Memphis homicide detective, along with his partner, Tyrone Walker is faced with a cowboy preacher, a home invasion, urban gangs, and a killer who sees spirits and converses with the dead. The s...

  • A Crop of Circles

    Illegal Aliens: A craft from deep space has been forced to land in an Illinois cornfield, and only a twelve-year old boy named Torbert can see it for what it truly is. The meth cookers next door, the drug dealers in East Saint Louis, and even Torbert...

  • Playing Custer

    Playing Custer is a novel narrated from varying points of view and time, illuminating personal and political events leading up to the death of General George Armstrong Custer. The historic events are framed by the story of two men from the late twent...

  • Nashville Burning

    Nashville Burning is set in three Aprils, those of 1967, ’68, and ’69, in Music City. In the first, after an event at Vanderbilt University featuring Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Allen Ginsburg, and Strom Thurmond, riots broke out ...

  • Memphis Luck

    The long awaited sequel to MEMPHIS RIBS

    Homicide detectives J.W. Ragsdale and Tyrone Walker are back...investigating what appears to be a simple home invasion robbery gone fatally wrong. The clues lead them to an autistic teenager, an aspirin...

  • Legends of Lost Man Marsh

    The two worlds of Austin Bullock collide when Chief Emory Sees the Water dies mysteriously in Lost Man Marsh, part of the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation in the Big Thicket of East Texas. By blood, bone, and history, Austin Bullock is now the Chief ...

  • Memphis Bluff

    Memphis, the Bluff City, is at the heart of Gerald Duff’s hilariously violent story about lies, crimes, and those who must dig down to the ugly truths hiding beneath false claims made by movers, shakers, and criminals high and low. Memphis cops ...

  • Blood Tells



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gerald Duff has published 29 books.

Gerald Duff does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blood Tells, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Gerald Duff, Graveyard Working, was published in May 1994.

No. Gerald Duff does not write books in series.
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