Marshall Thornton

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2009
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Dom Reilly Mystery

1 - Year of the Rat (May-2021)

A Jan Birch Mystery

Coffee Clutch (Feb-2009)
Bartholi's Rest (Apr-2010)
Mountain View Terrace (Mar-2011)

A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown

1 - Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries (Jun-2011)
2 - Boystown 2: Three More Nick Nowak Mysteries (Jun-2011)
3 - Boystown 3: Two Nick Nowak Novellas (Jun-2011)
4 - Boystown 4: A Time for Secrets (Apr-2012)
5 - Murder Book (Apr-2013)
6 - From the Ashes (Jun-2014)
7 - Bloodlines (Mar-2015)
8 - The Lies That Bind (Feb-2016)
9 - Lucky Days (Jan-2017)
10 - Gifts Given (Nov-2017)
11 - Heart's Desire (Aug-2018)
12 - Broken Cord (Mar-2019)
13 - Fade Out (Jan-2020)
Little Boy Dead (Aug-2012)

The Perils of Praline

1 - The Perils of Praline (Oct-2010)
2 - Praline Goes to Washington (Jan-2017)

A Pinx Video Mystery

1 - Night Drop (Sep-2017)
2 - Hidden Treasures (Feb-2018)
3 - Late Fees (Nov-2018)
4 - Rewind (May-2019)
5 - Cash Out (Dec-2020)

A Wyandot County Mystery

1 - The Less Than Spectacular Times of Henry Milch (Apr-2020)
2 - A Fabulously Unfabulous Summer for Henry Milch (Feb-2022)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • The Beneficiary

    Set against the backdrop of the Los Angeles riots, this contemporary noir follows a struggling real estate agent who’s cooked up a plan to make a big pot of money. Hanging around a Narcotics Anonymous meeting she finds a former addict struggling th...

  • Coffee Clutch

    A Jan Birch Mystery

    In the first Jan Birch mystery, a sixties homemaker maintains a tight circle of friends in her Upstate New York suburban neighborhood. When the divorcée down the street is murdered, the women attribute her death to a hobo they’d seen months before...

  • Simple Addition

  • Lucky is Lost

    When divorced dad Richard Gibbings gets a call from his little girl telling him that Lucky, the family dog is missing, he immediately rushes over to look for her. Unable to find the dog, he posts flyers around the neighborhood hoping someone might ca...

  • Bartholi's Rest

    A Jan Birch Mystery

    In the second Jan Birch Mystery, Jan takes a job as a waitress behind her husband’s back. When the owner of the restaurant, Paul Bartholi, takes a near-fatal fall down the basement stairs, Jan quickly becomes convinced it wasn’t an accident. She ...

  • The Perils of Praline

    The Perils of Praline - 1

  • Desert Run

  • Mountain View Terrace

    A Jan Birch Mystery

    In the third Jan Birch Mystery, Jan fulfills a dream by getting a part-time job that utilizes her artistic skills and finally realizes she must come to some resolution of her marriage after she begins a tentative relationship with local police office...

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  • The Development: Three Jan Birch Mysteries

    Set in the mid-sixties in upstate New York, Jan Birch is a housewife who lives in a planned development of small, cramped homes. As she struggles with a difficult marriage and an anti-social son, she finds herself involved in the murder of the neighb...

  • Boystown 2: Three More Nick Nowak Mysteries

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 2

  • Boystown 3: Two Nick Nowak Novellas

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 3

  • Boystown: Three Nick Nowak Mysteries

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 1

  • Boystown 4: A Time for Secrets

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 4

  • Little Boy Dead

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown

    In this prequel to the Lambda Award-winning Boystown mystery series, former Chicago police officer turned private investigator, Nick Nowak is haunted by a traumatic break-up and his abrupt departure from the department after being gay-bashed. It's fa...

  • The Christmas Visit

    A Chicago art director in his early thirties returns to his tiny Upstate New York hometown to spend the holiday with his recently widowed father only to find himself involved with his boyhood crush, now a closeted sheriff’s deputy. It’s sentiment...

  • Murder Book

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 5

  • The Ghost Slept Over

  • My Favorite Uncle



  • From the Ashes

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 6

  • Snowman with Benefits

    Disperato di vincere una gara di pupazzi di neve nel vicinato, Trey fa tutto ciò che è in suo potere. Lui e il suo ragazzo, Landon, lavorano tutta la mattina per creare un pupazzo di neve che somigli al David di Michelangelo. Sfortunata...

  • Bloodlines

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 7

    Winner Lambda Award Best Gay Mystery In the seventh book of the Boystown Mystery series, Private Investigator Nick Nowak finds himself simultaneously working two cases for his new client, law firm Cooke, Babcock and Lackerby. A suburban dentist has b...

  • Death Comes to Happy Acres

    At sixty-three, former jazz musician Wade Lovett finds himself something of a trailer park Lothario carrying on affairs with three different women. But when circumstances prompt Carol Smitzky to make a compelling case for a marriage arrangement, he a...

  • The Lies That Bind

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 8

    The eighth book of the best-selling Boystown Mysteries series begins with a phone call in the middle of the night. Private investigator Nick Nowak is pulled into the troubled world of freelance journalist, and all around pain-in-the-ass, Christian Ba...

  • Femme

    Queeny cocktail waiter, Lionel, wakes up to find himself in bed with Dog, a straight-acting softball player and the two embark on a rocky road to romance. A journey that requires coming out of the closet, going into the closet, a pair of red high hee...

  • Lucky Days

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 9

    In the ninth book of the bestselling mystery series, a young man wakes up covered in blood and with no memory of the previous night. When hypnotism doesn’t help, he turns to private investigator Nick Nowak. Meanwhile, the trial of Outfit kingpin Ji...

  • Praline Goes to Washington

    The Perils of Praline - 2

    In the long-awaited sequel to The Perils of Praline, TV reality star Helmut Dump is unexpectedly and illogically elected to the presidency causing an epidemic of politically induced impotence. When Praline’s boyfriend Jason falls victim to the mali...

  • Night Drop

    A Pinx Video Mystery - 1

    It’s 1992 and Los Angeles is burning. Noah Valentine, the owner of Pinx Video in Silver Lake, notices the fires have taken their toll on fellow shopkeeper Guy Peterson’s camera shop. After the riots end, he decides to stop by Guy’s to pick up h...

  • Gifts Given

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 10

    In the tenth installment of the award-winning Boystown Mysteries. It’s Christmas 1984, and Nick is busy juggling a couple of cases with the busy holiday season. Sugar Pilson has decided to marry and has asked Nick to check up on her fiancé. Meanwh...



  • Aunt Belle's Time Travel & Collectibles

    Where would you go if you could travel to any part of your past? That's the question Terrance faces on his 45th birthday-and right away, he knows. He wants to go back to 1992 and not meet Mr. Wrong. But what begins as a journey to change the past bec...

  • Hidden Treasures

    A Pinx Video Mystery - 2

    It’s about a dress. A valuable blue sequined dress worn by a famed actress in a film from the 1940s. For some reason, everyone thinks video storeowner Noah Valentine has it. Which might not be a big deal except that it’s connected to the murder o...

  • Masc

    Lionel and Dog are back in this follow-up to the Lambda finalist, Femme. Almost six months have passed and, after taking an online quiz, Lionel believes their relationship is doomed because they have nothing in common. To save their relationship, the...

  • Heart's Desire

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 11

    In February 1985, Nick struggles to recover from a gunshot wound, while taking on the case of a disturbed woman who may or may not have witnessed a murder. As he attempts to determine exactly what the woman saw, and how much danger she may be in, he ...

  • Never Rest

    Nineteen-year-old Jake Margate has had terminal leukemia for five years and is ready to let go but his mother has other ideas. She’s found a rogue doctor pursuing radical treatments and takes her son to a remote institute where he does seem to g...

  • Late Fees

    A Pinx Video Mystery - 3

    It's Thanksgiving, 1992 and Noah Valentine is late picking his mother up from the airport. When he arrives he discovers that she's made a friend on the flight whose also waiting for her son. When the woman's son doesn't show up, they eventually take ...

  • Broken Cord

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 12

  • Rewind

    A Pinx Video Mystery - 4

    Valentine's Day, 1993. After years of being single, Noah is finally ready to date again. Unfortunately, things don't end too well. After spending their first night together, he wakes up covered in blood-next to his very dead date. Already convinced N...

  • Code Name: Liberty

    In the summer of 1980, the news is full of the upcoming election and the hostage crisis in Iran but Patrick Henry Burke is not paying any attention. He's met a Persian prince and his head is full of romance. All of that changes though when a sexy CIA...

  • Fade Out

    A Nick Nowak Novel / Boystown - 13

    The Lambda Award-winning Boystown Mystery series comes to a close with Boystown 13: Fade Out. When a box containing a woman's corpse shows up at his doorstep, Private Investigator Nick Nowak finds himself accused of murder. The police are convinc...



  • The Less Than Spectacular Times of Henry Milch

    A Wyandot County Mystery - 1

    The Less Than Spectacular Times of Henry Milch begins a new mystery series called the Wyandot County Mysteries. Set in a mythical county in northern lower Michigan, the series begins in the spring of 2003. Things have not been going well for Henry Mi...

  • Cash Out

    A Pinx Video Mystery - 5

    It's Easter 1993, and the gang is going to Las Vegas for Angie's surprise wedding. Noah is attempting to recover from a bad bout of the flu-not to mention his disastrous Valentine's Day and is not all that excited to meet his new relatives: Cotto...

  • Year of the Rat

    A Dom Reilly Mystery - 1

    Long Beach, California 1996. Despite having little obvious experience, bartender Dom Reilly is hired as an investigator for the Freedom Agenda, a not-for-profit justice project. His first case involves a twelve-year-old homicide, in which a teenage g...

  • Fathers of the Bride

    After more than two decades together, Andrew Lane and Miles Kettering-Lane are going through a nasty divorce. Not only are they unraveling their relationship but also their business-Miles once had a popular home show on cable with Andrew serving as h...

  • A Fabulously Unfabulous Summer for Henry Milch

    A Wyandot County Mystery - 2

    In the second Wyandot County Mystery, things are still not going well for Henry Milch. While stuck in Northern Lower Michigan helping his Nana Cole recover from a stroke, he learns that her favorite pastor has been killed. When Nana Cole asks him to ...

  • The Fall and Rise of Henry Milch

    In the third book of the Wyandot County Mystery series, Henry is very excited: He's just bought a car-and his old roommate in Los Angeles wants to get an apartment with him.But then, when he stops in at his doctor's to pick up an Oxy prescription (he...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marshall Thornton has published 45 books.

Marshall Thornton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Fall and Rise of Henry Milch, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Marshall Thornton, Simple Addition, was published in February 2009.

Yes. Marshall Thornton has 6 series.
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