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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2013
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Michael Parker

1 - Deputy: Once Upon A Time In Mississippi (Jan-2017)
2 - Blood On The Ground: Living And Dying In Nod (Nov-2018)
3 - A Ghostly Shade of Pale (Dec-2013)
4 - A Rented World (Nov-2014)
5 - The Redeemed, A Leap of Faith (Feb-2016)
6 - Resurrection: Home Before Dark (Jul-2023)

Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • The divergent elements of a Southern Gothic nightmare converge and occupy the same stage in A Ghostly Shade of Pale. History files on a bygone era are ripped open and rewritten in games of murder, betrayal, the macabre, and the supernatural.  



  • Readers who followed Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Captain Michael Parker in A Ghostly Shade of Pale will discover, as Michael does, that the gangsters who tried to kill him were amateurs compared to the political criminals he confronts in the unho...



  • Michael Parker, the central charcter in the trilogy of books, finds that life is not the neat and tidy place he thought it was when he leaves Ole Miss to enter the first drug wars in A Ghostly Shade of Pale. Targeted for assassination and ambush in t...



  • "Deputy is Southern Gothic literature--a complex tale of flawed but fascinating characters, mystery, and the supernatural. Paints images that burrow into your soul, captures the grand stage and social order of 1970, explores race relations and narrow...



  • Drugs, bombings, murder, kidnapping, Communists, Satanists, corrupt politicians, and lost lambs. What is was like on the front lines of the second rebellion of humankind. How it changed America. Why it matters. A naive undercover agent and his descen...



  • Michael Parker turns tragedy into triumph and finds love and liberty when he leaves prison. His life is once again threatened, but he becomes an author and evangelist and travels to the set of Criminal Minds in Hollywood to sign books and witness to ...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Merle Temple has published 6 books.

Merle Temple does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Resurrection: Home Before Dark, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Merle Temple, A Ghostly Shade of Pale, was published in December 2013.

Yes. Merle Temple has 1 series.