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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2006
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Infraction Getting Even

    Here are two serial killers, each wishing to settle a score. Meet Wilberforce Duggie Hansen, at odds with a mother who is a domineering drunk and has a bias against the gay friends her son wishes to bring home. She arranges never to have to confront ...

  • The Codfish Aristocrat

  • Return to Cross Island

  • Requiem for a Character Actor

    Police Chief Quentin Price is called to the scene of a bloody murder backstage at the Chainville Theater. Steve Gossman, aka Willy Loman, has been executed with a 12-guage buckshot load at the end of the play, Death of a Salesman. Who wanted...

  • The Saga of the Little Saucepan

    On the 7th of April, 1974, four people ventured out of the Aukland, NA harbour destined for Sydney, AU. Of the four, only one had been to sea. The vessel had two sets of sails, no radio, little life-saving gear, no motor, and provisions for three wee...

  • Infraction-Getting Even: Crime Scene Do Not Cross

    Here are two serial killers, each wishing to settle a score. Meet Wilberforce Duggie Hansen, at odds with a mother who is a domineering drunk and has a bias against the gay friends her son wishes to bring home. She arranges never to have to confront ...

  • The Great Stallion Caper: Winning Has Nothing to Do with Luck

    Luck takes a backseat when a sure thing is a sure thing. A strange coincidence that triggered an outrageous plot to win a fortune in a masterful racetrack betting coup . . . The daring team that put the caper together . . . A flawed stallion that was...

  • Eternity's Embrace

    This is a two-frame story. The inner frame deals with the formation of a family during the era of World War I. It is a love story, set largely in the State of Maine, though the characters harken from elsewhere. The outer frame is a story of their pro...

  • The Hollerith Tattoo

    Malcolm Zytel, a computer programmer for the Pelican National Bank, has devised an amazingly simple way to embezzle money. When he takes $100,000 and runs, he is unaware that he could have taken more than a quarter million dollars. For his c...



  • Infraction

    In Northern California, somebody is killing people for minor infractions--or so it appears. Some are for traffic infractions; some are simply because the killer has been annoyed by his victim. Wait! What was that about a copycat? It involves a Seal ...

  • Infraction--Getting Even

    Here are two serial killers, each wishing to settle a score. Meet Wilberforce Duggie Hansen, at odds with a mother who is a domineering drunk and has a bias against the gay friends her son wishes to bring home. She arranges never to have to confront ...

  • Belly Up To The Isobar

  • The Pirates of Peary Village

    Full sized format. Someone is stealing Khristopher (Kit) Lang's newspapers! The State of Maine after World War II. Kit is working for his family after Kit's father loses his defense job. The story begins in 1940 in the City of Brewer, Maine and trace...

  • Sospan Fach: The Saga of the Little Saucepan

    On the 7th of April, 1974, four people ventured out of the Aukland, NA harbour destined for Sydney, AU. Of the four, only one had been to sea. The vessel had two sets of sails, no radio, little life-saving gear, no motor, and provisions for three wee...

  • The Broken Rose

    Gus murders Rose and runs to Russia. What were they doing in Alaska in the second decade of the 20th Century? Gus Priesner is a coal miner from the Ruhr Valley. A Prussian who served in the Kaiser's Navy in 1900, he goes to Canada prior to World War ...

  • A Wife of Noble Character

    WHERE IS YOUR WIFE?Wesley Mayfield, an 1888 graduate of he Cleveland Medical School, takes his first position in the town of Wichita Falls on the plains of North Texas. There are things that are not available in Ohio, such as a tornado or a prairie f...

  • The Wisdom of Wood Smoke

    Pay the Mortgage! Horace (Hank) Henderson and his wife Leona work to keep a homestead farm intact. The economy is bad; outgo exceeds income, and there’s that large hospital bill. He mortgages his southern New Hampshire farm and cannot make even the...

  • The Shadow of a Doubt

    A fiery train wreck consumes Binney Cooper?s husband, Norris, leaving her to provide for herself and her twin boys. Left penniless by the loss of her teaching position, she asks a court to declare Norris dead, permitting insurance benefits. Bigamist ...

  • Love Never Forgets

    Mary Frances Cammack, 9, wishes to marry Cyrus Grantham, 17, a graduate of Virginia Military Institute. He's in the Confederate Cavalry, headed toward Gettysburg. The Cammack Mansion is beset by gloom, due to the death of the mother and a sibling. Th...



  • As Wild as It Gets

    Six smart movers come up with a killer caper to score millions in bets on the racetrack by substituting a super gelding for a lookalike no-hoper in one race.Ingenious minds go to work, and the caper hits the button.But what the movers fail to see is ...

  • Love Has A Southern Heartbeat

    This is a love story, but not quite the way one would expect it to happen, with a surprise ending. It has gentleness, joy, pathos, and sadness. It puts you squarely into Victorian-era Arizona at a time when the railroad has not yet arrived and travel...

  • Canandaigua Bride

    The animal had gone to one of two places to seek grass or water. The three watering holes would have frozen with enough ice to deny the animal a drink. The steer would collapse the ice. The ice was not broken at the first two, but at the third, he he...

  • Novelettes with Spiritual Themes -- Volume I

    Novelettes with Spiritual Themes are rare. Here are four such novelettes that involve romance, business, challenge, spirituality, and commitment. References detail the scriptures used (King James Version)....

  • Walter's Song

    The story is a romance. The basis is scriptural. There are children involved. There is a major decision that must be made by the protagonist. There is a major snowstorm. There is a series of plays by the scorned lover. And when it's all over, God is ...

  • Novelettes with Spiritual Themes Volume 8

  • The Secret Son

    Barry, the illegitimate son of Judy, is a perpetual lawbreaker and has spent much of his life in prison. Judy, his mother, kept his existence from Harold when they married. Once he learned about Barry, Harold insists that Judy notify the court of Bar...

  • FINAL PERFORMANCE

    Police Chief Quentin Price is called to the scene of a bloody murder backstage at the Bellson Theater. Steve Gossman, playing Willy Loman, has been executed with a 12-gauge buckshot load at the end of the play, Death of a Salesman. Who wanted Steve d...

  • The Pattern Killings

    Did you ever hear of the Salami Technique? No? Then perhaps you have never spent any time in jail for using it. Ira Sanderson did. With it, he ripped off a bank for $100,000. The irony is that he could have taken more. But now Ira has been caught, tr...

  • The Urge to Kill

    He sits eating breakfast, nursing a cup of coffee, and performing a western ritual-raising his baseball cap and running his hands through diminishing hair. He does this whenever somebody approaches. The cap, gray to match the clothing he wears, is ma...



  • Auburn Dust

    Teenagers Bradley Featherstone and Ida Mae McLeod are in love… or so it seems. Ida's father, Angus, has vetoed the marriage until his daughter is older.Bradley faces the draft for the Civil War when his father Henry decides to take Homestead Ac...

  • Overnight Delivery

    A turn of the century story of man (Brad Watson) meets woman (Carol Taylor) but woman has responsibilities and obligations (children, mortgages, single motherhood, business disaster). He is a retired serviceman who is now a truck driver; she is a flo...

  • Sizzle & Grit

    In the quiet, unassuming town of Sunrise, Iowa, the peace is shattered when an explosion rocks Millie's Diner, sending shockwaves through the community. What follows is a pulse-pounding journey through a tangled web of secrets, betrayal, and survival...

  • Canandagua Bride

    • / Christian

    The animal had gone to one of two places to seek grass or water. The three watering holes would have frozen with enough ice to deny the animal a drink. The steer would collapse the ice. The ice was not broken at the first two, but at the third, he he...

  • The Princess of Pudding River

    • / Christian

    In the bustling streets of early 20th-century New York, Angelina Busto's life is shaped by determination and grit. A worker in a garment district sweat shop, she stumbles into a fortuitous challenge at the Morristown Bakery—a contest of confect...

  • The Wreck, The Romance, and the Hound

    • / Historical

    In the wake of the 1707 Scilly Naval Disaster, where four Royal Navy ships were lost to the treacherous waters, four lives become entangled in fate, guilt, and redemption.Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell, intent on bragging about his victo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ken Lord has published 35 books.

Ken Lord does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sizzle & Grit, was published in April 2025.

The first book by Ken Lord, Infraction Getting Even, was published in July 2006.

No. Ken Lord does not write books in series.
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