Mark Richard Zubro

Mark Richard Zubro writes fast-paced mystery novels set in Chicago. He is an Eighth Grade English teacher in Frankfort Square, Illinois, and lives with his partner in Mokena, Illinois. He is the creator of Tom Mason, an amateur detective and high school teacher, who along with his life partner and baseball player Scott Carpenter solves murders and mysteries. Many of the novels have some sort of school connection. He was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for A Simple Suburban Murder in which Tom solves the murder of unpopular math teacher Jim Evans.
Gay Chicago Police Detective Paul Turner and his straight partner Buck Fenwick fight crime in a second popular series. His most recent novel, Hook, Line, and Homicide, was published in 2007.

Books:

A Simple Suburban Murder	An Echo of Death	Another Dead Teenager
Are You Nuts?	Dead Egotistical Morons	Drop Dead
Everyone's Dead But Us	File Under Dead	Here Comes the Corpse
Hook, Line & Homicide	Nerds Who Kill	One Dead Drag Queen
Political Poison	Rust on the Razor	Sex and Murder.com
Sorry Now?	The Only Good Priest	The Principal Cause of Death
The Truth Can Get You Killed	Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?

Characters:

Paul Turner

Scott Carpenter

Tom Mason

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