Scott William Carter

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2010
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Garrison Gage Mystery

1 - The Gray and Guilty Sea (Nov-2010)
2 - A Desperate Place for Dying (Mar-2012)
3 - The Lovely Wicked Rain (Jun-2014)
4 - A Shroud of Tattered Sails (Jan-2016)
5 - A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart (May-2017)
6 - Bury the Dead in Driftwood (Aug-2019)
7 - A Deep and Deadly Undertow (Sep-2020)
8 - A Cold and Shallow Shore (Jan-2022)

A Myron Vale Investigation

0.5 - The Haunted Breadbox (May-2013)
1 - Ghost Detective (Jun-2013)
2 - The Ghost Who Said Goodbye (Apr-2015)
3 - The Ghost, the Girl, and the Gold (Oct-2016)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • The Dinosaur Diaries and Other Tales Across Space and Time

    In this impressive collection, rising talent Scott William Carter showcases his considerable storytelling skills, taking readers on thrilling journeys that stretch the imagination and expand the laws of what is possible. Within these eighteen tale...

  • The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys

    CHARLIE HILL, straight-A student, straight-A geek, and Most Likely to Be a Human Squid for the Rest of His Life, is having a bad day. The worst. All he wants to do is make it through school without being on the receiving end of a beating from Leo Gon...

  • The Liberators

    "There's one rule in the interstellar liberation force: you never take off your helmet. Even if the atmosphere of whatever planet you are liberating from the vicious aliens does happen to breathable, there could be any number of lethal viruses or mic...

  • Directions to Mourning's Deep

  • Shatterboy

  • A Christmas in Amber

    With a meteor on a collision course with Earth, a mass evacuation is underway for a privileged few - but not for an elderly man who must say goodbye to those he loves. A powerful Christmas tale that originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction an...

  • Heart of Stone: Medusa's Story

    The untold story of Medusa -- and a tale of love and redemption unlike any you've ever read. A short story that originally appeared in HAGS, SIRENS, AND OTHER AND BAD GIRLS, Daw Books, July 2006. "Scott William Carter gives us a wond...

  • The Red Scarf

  • Lincoln and the Dragon

    When a dimension-hopping descendant of a Confederate general attempts to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, the plan goes awry and Lincoln is stranded in a world of brave knights, drafty castles, and a princess scarred by a one-eyed dragon. As he falls...



  • A Plunder by Pilgrims

    It starts with a knock at the door - something reclusive ex-detective Garrison Gage hates. When it's his teenage neighbor, whose girlfriend has gone missing just before Thanksgiving, Gage gets reluctantly pulled back into his old line of work - an...

  • A Web of Black Widows

    In these six provocative tales, Scott William Carter takes the reader on a journey to places where love and loss intersect: a grieving tattoo artist makes a cross-country trip with a pregnant woman on the run from her disturbed husband. a mys...

  • The Gray and Guilty Sea

    A Garrison Gage Mystery - 1

    A curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they're being charitable. After his wife's brutal murder in New York, and Gage himself is beaten nearly to death, the crippled private investigator re...

  • The Bear Who Sang Opera

    When a grizzly bear walks into your office, it's enough to get your attention. When that grizzly turns out to be an opera-singing, biological-robot hybrid claiming someone stole his singing voice, it begins one of the strangest cases of Dexte...

  • A Dark Planetarium

  • Father Hagerman's Dog

  • Motivational Speaker

  • Road Gamble

  • Tommy Top Hat

    One tragic day in a shopping mall, Kevin Husby turns his back on his infant daughter for just an instant - and the unthinkable happens. Someone abducts her. Twenty years later, divorced and alone, Kevin is living a hollow existence in New York whe...

  • President Jock, Vice President Geek

    It was a simple plan. She would help him pass algebra. He would help her win the student election. What could go wrong? ***** Take one geeky sixteen-year-old girl deathly afraid of speaking to any crowd larger than one, but who desperately needs some...



  • Drawing a Dark Way

    In the world of Rymadoon, he has an amazing power. Jason Rosewood loves to draw. In fact, he'd rather draw than do anything else. But when his sister is kidnapped by three black demon creatures with glowing white eyes and huge wings, Jason must pursu...

  • The Dragon of the Dolomites

    Dragons, glass boys, and multiplying cats. From award-winning writer Scott William Carter comes a collection of four spellbinding fantasy tales geared toward younger readers - and the young at heart. THE DRAGON OF THE DOLOMITES...

  • The Human Addict

  • Tales of Twisted Time

    In these four riveting tales, Carter takes a classic of science fiction - the time travel story - into surprising new territory. A man finds a room where time doesn't pass in the spellbinding "The Time Of His Life." When a scientist beco...

  • The Unity Worlds at War

    Whether it's the soldiers on the front line or the bartenders who serve them, war leaves no one unscathed. These four tales set in Carter's war-ravaged Unity Worlds universe - three originally published in the leading science fiction magazines of...

  • Strange Ghosts

    Equal parts riveting and stirring, Carter takes a staple of campfires and rainy nights - the ghost story - into surprising new territory in this collection. No gore or gratuitous splatter here - these tales are meant to raise the hairs on the back...

  • A Tale of Two Giants

    You don't have to be tall to be a giant. They meet on a rainy night, penniless and alone, both of them without a friend in the world. He's a disgraced, down-on-his luck giant, short for his kind, banished forever from his tribe. He just wants to be ...

  • The Android Who Became a Human Who Became an Android

    It ain't easy being a private investigator in a galaxy that spans thousand of worlds - especially when you make the mistake of putting your heart on the line. When an old flame of Dexter Duff's shows up out of the blue, claiming her rich hu...

  • The Problem with Polly

  • The Sword of Surrender



  • Last Stop on Dowling Street

    Racism never got off the bus. On a rainy night in Houston, in a ratty apartment as dark as his dreams, retired bus driver Frank Granger wakes in a cold sweat convinced a stranger with a gun lurks at the foot of his bed. And he's right....

  • A Desperate Place for Dying

    A Garrison Gage Mystery - 2

    An old flame.A killer on the loose.A crazy cult on the rise.Nearly a year has passed since Garrison Gage became the reluctant guardian of a troubled teenage girl, but neither fatherhood nor the the intervening months has improved his mood. His ...

  • The Care and Feeding of Rubber Chickens

    Seventeen-year-old Trevor can't catch a break. Just when he finds out that Janna, the girl of his dreams, is finally available, his mom tells him he's being shipped off to a boarding school because of his awful grades. A desperate call to his dad, wh...

  • The Man Who Made No Mistakes

    What if you had the power to rewind time? Make a scene in a restaurant, give your boss the finger, rob a bank just to see how it feels -- you could satisfy any whim, fulfill any desire, make any wish you'd ever had come true. The man who wanders in...

  • Wooden Bones

    Becoming a real boy was just the beginning. Since he changed, Pino has struggled to live a quiet life with his father Gepetto. But a boy who used to be a wooden puppet doesn’t fit in well with the other villagers. When Pino creates a replica of ...

  • The Haunted Breadbox

    A Myron Vale Investigation - 0.5

    Myron Vale sees ghosts. One hundred billion of them, to be precise. In a world where everybody dies but nobody leaves, Myron Vale is the rare individual who completely straddles both sides of the great divide. In fact, he may just be the only one....

  • Ghost Detective

    A Myron Vale Investigation - 1

    Everybody dies. Nobody leaves.
    After narrowly surviving a near-fatal shooting, Portland detective Myron Vale wakes with a bullet still lodged in his brain, a headache to end all headaches, and a terrible side effect that radically transforms his...

  • The Lovely Wicked Rain

    A Garrison Gage Mystery - 3

    They find him on the beach, shooting bullets into the sand.

    His name? Jeremiah Cooper, the son of the bullheaded high school football coach. Slight of build, soft of voice, he's got all kinds of torment lurking behind his eyes. But despite ...

  • The Ghost Who Said Goodbye

    A Myron Vale Investigation - 2

    Charles Manson. Ted Bundy. Jeffrey Dahmer. Known for their cunning and savagery. In the late eighties, another infamous serial killer sent seventeen innocent people to early graves. Then, suddenly, the murders in the terrified city of Portland, Orego...

  • A Shroud of Tattered Sails

    A Garrison Gage Mystery - 4

    A beached sailboat. A missing man. A distraught woman staggering ashore. There to greet her -- Garrison Gage, full-time curmudgeon and part-time private investigator, who quickly finds himself thrust into his familiar role of crusader for the despera...



  • The Ghost, the Girl, and the Gold

    A Myron Vale Investigation - 3

    The dead do not dream.A week before Christmas, John and Laura Ray storm into Myron's office, desperate to find their missing daughter. Money? They don't have any. Clues? They have few. Plagued by mounting bills and a skull-crushing migraine, Portland...

  • A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart

    A Garrison Gage Mystery - 5

    They find his body at the bottom of Heceta Head Lighthouse -- Ed Boone, a longtime volunteer who commits suicide rather than see his grim diagnosis to its bitter end. The strangeness of the old man's death makes the local news, but Garrison Gage thin...

  • The Castle on the Hill at the Edge of the World

    If everybody would just leave Sam alone, she'd be perfectly happy hanging out in The Land Between, the undeveloped forest at the end of the street where she can pretend, at least for a little while, that life is much better than it really is. Then a ...

  • Bury the Dead in Driftwood

    A Garrison Gage Mystery - 6

    Harriet Abel never shows up for her appointment. Irritating as hell? Sure. It's hard enough to work as a private investigator without potential clients standing you up. Of course, it's difficult to show up when you're dead. A revered community figur...

  • Throwaway Jane

    Carter's writing is on target.—Publishers WeeklyFormer FBI agent Karen Pantelli lives by a simple philosophy: never, ever care. Three years after a tragic mistake ends her once-stellar career, she drifts from one dead-end job to another, quick...

  • A Deep and Deadly Undertow

    A Garrison Gage Mystery - 7

    Years after his wife dies in a mafia hit gone wrong, Garrison Gage finally pieces together a life for himself in the Oregon coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs. Some days the cranky private investigator with the bum knee and the caustic wit could even c...

  • Lethal Beauty

    Never mess with a woman with nothing left to lose.Another state. Another city. Another dead-end job. A stellar FBI agent until tragedy set her adrift, Karen Pantelli finds herself working at a pizza joint in Billings, Montana, trying to ignore the in...

  • The Dragon Lottery

    Win the lottery? Congrats! You get to fight the dragon—to the death!* * *Each summer, the kingdom of Dunbury holds a lottery. The prize? The right to face the Black Dragon in a fight to the death.Nobody ever returns.Widespread hunger. Banned B...

  • A Cold and Shallow Shore

    A Garrison Gage Mystery - 8

    Gage hates birthdays. So when his daughter throws him a surprise party on the coldest night the Oregon coastal town of Barnacle Bluffs has seen in years, Gage finds himself in an equally frosty mood. And when a police cruiser stops him as he trudges ...

  • Ask Hagan

    Ask Hagan anything. Anything at all. Even how to outwit a madman ...Once a promising young novelist with big literary dreams, John Winsley wakes up on the other side of forty as a third-rate hack with a perpetual hangover. Fueled by bitterness, he cr...



  • Looking for Little Red

    On a rainy night at a tiny Oregon college, a shadowy figure at the back of the hall interrupts Bullwick Farley's mythology lecture: Little Red Riding Hood has done something terrible, he says, and I desperately need your help before it's too late.Jus...

  • Dead-Eyed Drifter

    Former FBI agent turned full-time drifter, Karen Pantelli pursues a promising lead on her long missing mother to Orcas Island, Washington. Toiling as a hotel maid, she reaches a dead end until an encounter with an eccentric math professor raises a gr...

Award-Winning Books by Scott William Carter

The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys
2011 Oregon Book Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Scott William Carter has published 51 books.

Scott William Carter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dead-Eyed Drifter, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Scott William Carter, The Dinosaur Diaries and Other Tales Across Space and Time, was published in March 2010.

Yes. Scott William Carter has 2 series.
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