John Howard Reid

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2006
  • Latest Book:
    October 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Merryll Manning

1 - Trapped on Mystery Island (Sep-2008)
2 - The Health Farm Murders (Oct-2008)
3 - Beachfront "Holiday" (Apr-2010)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Watching Time

    This anthology includes 15 prizewinning essays and short stories by the following authors: Jennifer Antonacci, Fred McGavran, Jan Breen, Ned Condini, Laurie Gough, Rebecca Marshall-Courtois, Lissa Byers, Vicki Conte, B. Lynch Black, Kay Beth Avery, N...

  • Micaela Morris in Jo's Heaven and Other Stories

  • A Packet of Dreams

    An anthology of never-previously-published short stories, some of them prize-winning, on various subjects and themes, written by the Chief Judge of the Annual Tom Howard Short Story Contest. Although they explore a number of different genres, most of...

  • Trapped on Mystery Island

    Merryll Manning - 1

    The first of a series of mystery thrillers, featuring Police Sergeant Merryll Manning of the Paradise Police Department. (Paradise is the author's fictional capital city of Florida, and is not based on Miami). The action takes place on an otherwise d...

  • Prophet, Priest and King

    Thrilling action, suspense and mystery abound in this historical novel, inspired by the books of Kings and Chronicles in the Old Testament of the Bible. Highlighting the latter days of King Solomon in the city of Jerusalem in Ancient Israel, the nove...

  • The Health Farm Murders

    Merryll Manning - 2

    A mystery thriller, set against the spectacular scenic backdrop of an imaginary health farm in the small mountain township of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, west of Sydney, Australia, this is the second suspense novel featuring ...

  • Across the Long Bridge: An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry

    This beautifully bound HARDCOVER version of ACROSS THE LONG BRIDGE features no less than 134 award-winning poems from the 2nd Margaret Reid Prize for Traditional Verse and the 3rd Tom Howard Poetry Contest for Verse in All Styles and Genres. Poets re...

  • Beachfront "Holiday"

    Merryll Manning - 3

    Following "Merryll Manning: Trapped on Mystery Island" and "Merryll Manning: The Health Farm Murders", the third Merryll Manning mystery/suspense novel takes the Miami police sergeant to Sydney Harbor, Australia, where he finds himself the chief susp...

  • In All His Glory

    Set in Ancient Egypt during the reign of the usurper, Pharaoh Shishak, "In All His Glory" masterfully fills out the sketchy details of history. It tells of the stormy relationships between the Hebrew refugee, Jeroboam (later king of Israel), the phar...



  • Merryll Manning On the Rim of Heaven

    John Howard Reid is one of this country's greatest natural storytellers... Some critics have likened his works to those of Agatha Christie. I find the comparison a little unfair -- to Mr. Reid. If Reid's work needs comparing, I would liken it to Grah...

  • A Brush with Death

    "A Brush with Death" takes former police detective, Merryll Manning, from his usual haunts in Miami, Florida, to "Allmiston," a leading city in Colorado, where Manning obtains a job with Security at the city's Art Gallery for the duration of a Rembra...

  • Adventures of a Fighting Girl Michaela Morris in Dark Black Gold

    Michaela Morris is the general manager of a Country Club in a leading city, Jarrico Junction, in the South. The Club is staging an important Golf Tournament, but Michaela is under pressure not only from a rival attraction that is being staged at the ...

  • Merryll Manning Is Dead Lucky

    Merryll Manning tackles a killer in Hollywood in this acclaimed novel that has never before been published in America, even though the rights were purchased by a leading New York publisher for no less than $10,000. These rights expired in 2014. Now y...

  • Michaela Morris in Hollywood

    This novel tells a story instigated by a fictitious movie star named Bess Dress Blighty. Bess made the startling discovery that all a woman had to do to attract attention from the nation's press, radio and budding Tv, was to take her clothes off. But...

  • Rembrandt and the Collar of Gold

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Howard Reid has published 15 books.

John Howard Reid does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rembrandt and the Collar of Gold, was published in October 2015.

The first book by John Howard Reid, Watching Time, was published in July 2006.

Yes. John Howard Reid has 1 series.
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