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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1988
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Edgar Allan Poe

1 - On Night's Shore (Jan-2001)
2 - Disquiet Heart (May-2002)

A Ryan DeMarco Mystery

0.5 - Incident on Ten-Right Road (Jun-2019)
1 - Two Days Gone (Jan-2017)
2 - Walking the Bones (Jan-2018)
3 - A Long Way Down (Jun-2019)
4 - No Woods So Dark as These (Aug-2020)
5 - When All Light Fails (Aug-2021)

Book List in Order: 21 titles





  • Ernest DeWalt has every right to feel reclusive. He can’t drink, he can’t make love, he has lost all faith in a world gone mad with violence and greed. Now that all his old coping mechanisms are denied him, DeWalt, a private investigator turned n...



  • Helping a young woman find her brother's killer is the biggest risk wildlife filmmaker Mac Parris has ever taken, since he has spent most of his adult life hiding from the FBI and his own past in pursuit of revenge....



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    It is 1949…when a glance from a starlet named Marilyn Monroe can and does change men’s lives.And it is 2010…when the pouty smile of a teenage prostitute on Sunset Boulevard can throw history into a tailspin.And it is 2026…when one drop of an ...



  • "A master storyteller." -- New York Times Book Review On Night's Shore brings us deep into the troubled psyche of Edgar Allan Poe and the power struggle between the sleazy underbelly and the business elite of nineteenth-century New York City.Standi...



  • "A master storyteller." -- New York Times Book Review Pittsburgh, 1847: A cholera epidemic rages, and young women are disappearing…Poe is devastated by the death of his beloved wife and travels to Pittsburgh for a change of scenery, reuniting wit...



  • In 1847, famous author and poet Edgar Allan Poe, haunted by the death of his wife, arrives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to start a new life, only to find a city plagued by a cholera epidemic and a serial killer who is preying on attractive young wome...



  • In this novel an old man is telling a boy the same story he has told him hundreds of times before, so that now the boy can correct him on his errors, omissions, and embellishments. It is a lyric story of bittersweet memories and the enduring power of...








  • Yesterday, a local boy went missing in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Transplanted painter Charlotte Dunleavy was used to seeing him go into the woods, rifle in hand, to shoot at crows. Suffering from the debilitating aftereffects of a migraine, Ch...



  • Originally published as a Black Mask novella in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and later selected for inclusion in the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Harcourt anthology Best American Mystery Stories 2013, The Indian is a powerful story about love and b...



  • Escaping Faery was only the beginning. The Gentry. The Fair Folk. The Fey. By whatever names we call them, they take people, or bargain with them. For whatever reason they go in most never come home again. And those that do often find that home isn...



  • For fans of Tana French, Two Days Gone is a gripping new literary suspense novel from acclaimed author Randall Silvis that tells the story of a small college town rocked by a gruesome murder, and the beloved English professor presumed to be the culpr...



  • When family man and war veteran Russell loses his job as a quarry worker, his life suddenly seems more like a waking nightmare than a chance to finally live the American dream. Facing bills, a new baby, and a bone-dry bank account, he’s got nothing...



  • Sergeant Ryan DeMarco is back on the case The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully preserved, discovered years ago... that's all Sergeant Ryan DeMarco knows about he unsolved crime he has unwittingly been roped into investigating...



  • From award-winning author Randall Silvis comes a riveting exploration of the unforgivable secrets that families keep -- and the consequences that come from exposing them. Products of their run-down Pennsylvania mining town, three brothers grapple ...



  • From the critically acclaimed author of the best-selling Ryan DeMarco Mystery series comes this collection of crime novellas and stories, Randall Silvis’s first collection since his The Luckiest Man in the World was awarded the 1984 Drue Heinz Lite...



  • Just when you think you've reached the bottom... Ryan DeMarco would rather not go home. Not now, maybe not ever. But when his estranged wife attempts suicide, he has no choice but to return to western Pennsylvania, and all the memories that wa...



  • There are good reasons to fear the dark... Former Sergeant Ryan DeMarco's life has been spent in defiance―he's defied death, loneliness, and betrayal all while fighting the worst parts of humanity. He's earned a break, and following ...






  • A new mystery from Randall Silvis, critically acclaimed master of crime fictionWhen powerful men pull strings to get what they want... someone almost always ends up deadThere's not much that would convince retired police sergeant Ryan DeMarco to take...



  • A crime novel unlike any you've ever read -- based on true eventsWhere does the line blur between fact and fiction?Acclaimed author Randall Silvis is looking for a story -- any story to follow up the series of gripping mystery novels that catapulted ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Randall Silvis has published 21 books.

Randall Silvis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Deepest Black, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Randall Silvis, Excelsior, was published in April 1988.

Yes. Randall Silvis has 2 series.