Kim Ekemar

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2004
  • Latest Book:
    February 2022
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Full Series List in Order

The Callaghan Tetralogy

1 - The Lost Identity Casualties (Aug-2014)
2 - Where the Bones of a Buried Rat Lie (Aug-2014)
3 - The Quarry at the Crossroads (Aug-2014)
4 - The Tollbooth in the Labyrinth (Aug-2014)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Beyond the Limit

    In this ecclectic collection of short stories you are invited to cross the boundary that precedes death. You will do it accompanied by the haunting sounds of a cool club-land saxophone player, a Mexican mythomaniac's ideas of true beauty, a Tibetan m...

  • The Crimson Blueprints

    When published in 1971, Paul Crimson's war novel Velvet Nights became an instant success. Coaxed by his editor to write a follow-up, Crimson eventually accepted to hibernate in a New England fishing town to cure his writer's block. Prodded by commerc...

  • The Game and the Challenge

    What’s it going to be â€" the dice or the gauntlet? If you’re game, here are thirteen thought-provoking short stories to challenge you. Rumours of a mad captain’s ship stranded in the desert attract men from around the world, each armed with...

  • Destiny Comes with Strings Attached

    Did you ever ponder the events that control our fates? In his latest collection of short stories Kim Ekemar will show you that our destinies are not ruled by chance but that they are in the hands of someone . even in yours, should you be among the fo...

  • Death Is Either Certain or Unexpected

    From Book 1: In one day, I get fired from my job and discover my long-term boyfriend is cheating on me. Guess now is the perfect time to return home and visit my dad while rebuilding my life.

    Turns out he’s on vacation and his best friend ...

  • Tales of Greed & Wishful Thinking

    Eight short stories that has greed and wishful thinking in common …The Gift of a Golden Wish; USA/The world, in the 1930sWouldn't you too be game if you received the unexpected gift of getting everything you desired? Then again, what if this de...

  • Tales of Revenge & Deception

    Eight short stories with the common thread of revenge and deception …Signatures for Sale; Sonora/Los Angeles, 1943 – 1970The introduction is written like a train slowly leaving the station, mimicked in the rhythm of the text. After some h...

  • Tales of War

    Seven stories about war and its consequencies . . .The Dowry; Afghanistan, 1980War makes a cynical suitor. The future of a young man of marriageable age as seen from his pragmatic gunpoint view. An incident that never made the news, as recalled by a ...

  • Tales You Never Suspected

    Eight hilarious stories narrating things you never imagined would happen …My Thousand and One Last Suppers; Arabia, 1973 – 1976An arrogant jet setter ends up condemned to death in an Arabian jail. Using his vast gourmet knowledge, he cunn...



  • The Word Jugglers

    The Last Beat; London, 1966A policeman walks the empty streets of London Town on the eve of his death from a heart attack. As is his custom, he makes up tongue-in-cheek plays on words while reflecting on the sad state of society. The rhymes come to h...

  • The Lost Identity Casualties

    The Callaghan Tetralogy - 1

    2019 PINNACLE AWARD WINNER!

    Coming out of a coma, Matthias Callaghan finds himself tied to a hospital bed, wrapped in bandages and suffering from amnesia. As he gradually recovers his memories, Callaghan discovers that he â€"...

  • The Quarry at the Crossroads

    The Callaghan Tetralogy - 3

    When he’s taken in for questioning by the police, Matthias Callaghan is faced with two options: to maintain the identity he has been obliged to adopt or to reveal his real one. For different reasons, in either case he risks...

  • The Tollbooth in the Labyrinth

    The Callaghan Tetralogy - 4

    Chased across the world by police and criminals alike, Matthias Callaghan eludes them all by hiding in Australia. With his girlfriend Samantha, he starts a new life in the belief that he hasn’t left traces behind allowing I...

  • Where the Bones of a Buried Rat Lie

    The Callaghan Tetralogy - 2

    After a second full face transplant Matthias Callaghan eases into a different life together with his new girlfriend Samantha. Not until too late does he realise that the Metropolitan police, the Russian Mafia’s legal advise...

  • At the Heart of the Ivory Maze

    In this a-maze-ing collection you will lose yourself in nine original and entertaining short stories about the traps and benefits of taking advantage. Join the frantic train ride of a rock ‘n’ roll star and the legacy in its wake. Listen to the h...

  • The Game & the Challenge

    What’s it going to be â€" the dice or the gauntlet? If you’re game, here are thirteen thought-provoking short stories to challenge you.Rumours of a mad captain’s ship stranded in the desert attract men from around the world, each armed with a d...

  • Graveyard Grapevine

    Not everything is what it seems â€" a tombstone doesn’t necessarily mean the end of a person’s life. The remarkable short stories included in this book narrate eleven extraordinary cases with the common theme that life challenges death. So, prepa...

  • The Patricide

    THE PATRICIDEAfter a fire, the wealthy landowner Patrice Lafarge is found alone and dead in his bedroom locked from the inside. Inspector Rimbaud reviews the case and counts on the help of his sharp-witted Aunt Emilie. What at first appears to be an ...

  • Callaghan in the Cross Hairs

    Under the shrewd leadership of Vasily Ivanovich, the Russian Mafia in London is rapidly expanding its business in the UK and on the European continent. To launder the enormous proceeds, they strategically embark on a new, ingenious way to make the pr...



  • The Final Facedown

    To his great relief, Callaghan is declared innocent of the murder he has been charged with. After assisting the Metropolitan Police to expose the Russian Mafia's operation in the UK, he returns to Australia. Meanwhile, the head of the Russian Mafia, ...

  • The Hourglass Running out of Sand

    When Callaghan regains consciousness and discovers that he has been abandoned in the Sahara next to two corpses, he despairs about how to make it back to London without money or a phone. His greatest worry, though, is the loss of the ciclosporin pill...

  • The Murders on Three Bridges

    In need of a change of scenery, Detective Inspector Ricardo Arriaga boards Stella Australis for a trip around Tierra del Fuego. Before the ship reaches Cape Horn, the officer alone on the bridge is shot dead while sailing the ship across a bay. When ...

  • The Lady J Experiment

    This is a novel that invites many descriptions: a thriller with erotic undercurrents; a study about where today's technology will take us in the near future; a discussion about the definition of identity; and, at the same time, a story about rele...

  • Dedicated to Survival

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    Dedicated to Survival; The Indian Ocean, circa 1920This tale is about an anonymous man who doesn’t give up hanging on to his survival despite the overwhelming odds against it that he’s facing. The journal he keeps shows him to be a resour...

  • The Dowry

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    The Dowry Afghanistan, 1980War makes a cynical suitor. The future of a young man of marriageable age as seen from his pragmatic gunpoint view. As recalled by a war correspondent, it’s an incident that never made the news....

  • A Final Note in D-Sharp Minor

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    A Final Note in D-Sharp Minor; New York City, in the 1980sThis story is meant to rattle with sounds. What matters is the right mood for music – although in the orchestra, revenge plays a deadly blues....

  • The Lost Identity Casualties/Where the Bones of a Buried Rat Lie

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    2019 PINNACLE AWARD WINNER!THE LOST IDENTITY CASUALTIES Coming out of a coma, Matthias Callaghan finds himself tied to a hospital bed, wrapped in bandages and suffering from amnesia. As he gradually recovers his memories, Callaghan discovers that he ...

  • The Moment of Truth

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    The Moment of Truth Mexico, 1926 – 1976Don Rafa is a highly likeable man, but he can neither live with, nor tell, the truth. The only truths he recognises are those of beauty and male friendship. Beauty, as he sees it, exists in women and bullf...

  • Signatures for Sale

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    Signatures for sale; Sonora/Los Angeles, 1943 – 1970The rhythm in the introductory text mimics a train slowly leaving the station. After some hard years in Los Angeles, it finally gathers speed. To talented Ramona, who boarded the train as a yo...



  • The Soul Exchange

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    The soul exchange New York City, the 1980sUnexpectedly the devil finds a new game to play, arguing that evil is more fun – and besides, it pays better. A strong but wicked character becomes a new challenge for a wasted soul as a down-and-out dr...

  • Struck by Luck

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    Struck by Luck, Malaysia, 1965Two peasants challenge each other as a result of their superstition and extreme poverty. The twist of fatedistributes the rewards haphazardly, which proves that luck carries many faces....

  • Two Lives and the Camp of Death

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    Two Lives and the Camp of Death; Poland, 1943Gerber, the merciless commander of a World War II concentration camp, doesn’t see himself as part of a greater human community, but as a skilled administrator ordered to look for solutions. In a near...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kim Ekemar has published 32 books.

Kim Ekemar does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lady J Experiment, was published in February 2022.

The first book by Kim Ekemar, The Game and the Challenge, was published in August 2004.

Yes. Kim Ekemar has 1 series.
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