J Daniel Sawyer: 41 books

When it comes to raw-deal Christmas presents, you can't beat being thrown in an out-of-state jail on a trumped up charge—but detective Clarke Lantham can't resist a morbid challenge. So when he calls up his brother for help with bail, he steels himself for the ordeal of spending a holiday weekend...

Every detective deserves a second chance... Holidays make Clarke Lantham squirm—not even New Year's Eve escapes his scorn. With his space cramped, his personal life on the skids, and his business under assault from lawyers and bill collectors, he holes up in his office, counting his blessings...

Good neighbors make good victims... When ten-year-old Teddy Stride opened a junior detective agency, he wanted to impress the professional down the street. He didn't worry about the competition, he just wanted to make sure his detective agency wouldn't cause any problems with the man he idolized....

An early morning phone call from law enforcement? Never a good sign in Clarke Lantham's world—but for a private detective desperate to make ends meet, a government paycheck for a measly three hour delivery job couldn't come at a better time. Playing postman might be a little beneath a PI's pay grade,...

“Let us make man in our own image.” -God “...man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.” -Voltaire The Award-nominated author of The Antithesis Progression and Down From Ten brings you a genre-spanning collection in the American Gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury,...

No secret stays buried forever.. When Nya Thales started her basement remodel, she expected a good hard project. But when an accidental exhumation gets her a chance at solving one of the biggest unsolved crimes in California history, her only hope for claiming an FBI reward lies in the fears of her neighbors, the memories of the survivors, and the secrets buried beneath her floorboards.

Along came a spider and killed the insider... According to the official story, Martin Galloway shot himself in front of two cops. But his bereaved fiancee smells a rat, and when the system fails her, she turns to Clarke Lantham Investigations to prove that Martin was murdered. At stake: the...

A detective with insomnia chases every cop's worst nightmare... When a security guard disappears with a priceless Martian meteorite belonging to the Chinese government,  and surveillance tapes show a commando team of gray aliens making the snatch, a surly security chief turns to the only agency...

Death begins at home... The Milky Way. Sixty thousand light years across. A hundred billion planets to explore. Most of them out of reach, even of the Mannix-Alcubierre Warp Drive. In 2235, Earth's few well-worn neighbors brim with colonists and terraformers. Humanity now faces the final limits...

  "Includes one of my favorite Steampunk shorts of all time..." -Gail Carriger, New York Times Bestselling author of The Parasol Protectorate The author of The Antithesis Progression and The Clarke Lantham Mysteries brings you delicate, humorous, and brutal visions of a future...

Two X-chromosomes. One Surfboard. All Man. The author of The Antithesis Progression brings you a short novel of long odds. Climbing Olympus Mons put him on the map. Winning a gold medal in asteroid jumping got him great press. Children everywhere tune into watch every time he skydives...

Thirty-five years ago, ten children were abandoned in a pit of quicksand by mile-marker thirty-five to protect the reputation of the all-powerful Chiswick family. Thanks to the timely intervention of the local bag lady, though, they survived. Now, meeting annually as The Society of Miserable...

When your ass is on the line, they'll kick it off! They surfed a supernova. They beat the Poseidon Front. They raptured the rugrats and made the solar system safe for the most bodacious badassery. Now Suave Rob and Gigolo Jeff are bringing their epicness to your establishment. That's...

On a trip to visit his ailing grandfather, seventeen-year-old Peter meets a magician who claims to know how to grant Peter's dearest wish: to perform impossible illusions. But dearest wishes come with costs, and new opportunities come with each turn of the cards in a hospital room at the edge of nowhere.