J J Murray: 131 books

The fourth book in the series Tales of the Triad. Lyra is the story of a young Elf learning who and what she is through love and war, set against the background of life in the Triad Kingdom. Most of the Elves in the Triad are High Elves, dark, serious and somewhat bloodthirsty. Lyra, a small, constantly...

John's family has decided to join the Triad. His great-granddaughter is the first to come to school on the Citadel. John's big concern is how the other students will react to having a Goblin in their class. Elizabeth is also a problem, believing herself to be above others as the granddaughter...

Book Five in the series Tales of the Triad After two hundred years of living and working in the Triad Kingdom, Phillip was tired of using his magic to load grain silos and ships. He had been hanging with the same friends for longer than many people had been alive, drinking beer and eating pizza after...

Emma is the post apocalyptic tale of a young girl learning about herself and her world. Born in the kingdom of Tamarkand, a land founded three hundred years before by one of the dark wizards who fled the Citadel, she was the youngest of four in a family where girls were unwanted and unnamed. Known...

The rush of being violently shoved across dimensions into another world has worn off. Now, Kent and his band of followers have carved out a kingdom and must defend it against all comers. Grannen, King of Araondil, still wants the land and wealth Kent controls and hasn't stopped in his efforts to reopen...

Jack had a good life. He had left the farm to his brother and happily went to his dream job, fixing peoples mistakes in programing machine codes. Well, OK, it wasn't his dream job, but he liked it and he was very good at it. He stayed as far away from the family farm as he could, even missing...

The Starship Pathfinder had a mission, to find a new world for a Human colony. At first, Captain Eric Maddwell was alone on his journey. His search had lasted almost two and a half years and had turned up dead planets or useless gas giants. His discovery of a drifting alien ship almost identical to...

Step through a portal into another world. Earth like, except for the carnivorous parrot lizards and a few meat eating trees. The medieval culture has many similarities with the ancient cultures of the earth. This is a good thing for Kent, a perpetual student and reenactor. At thirty eight, he finally...

In An Artists Model and Other Poems, preferring to portray his modela woman with whom he has fallen in lovein words rather than in paint, author David J. Murray off ers an extended hymn of praise to her, expressing unresolved yearning throughout. Following a prologue setting the scene, he presents...

Jon Masters learns that trusted friend and mentor, Dan Whitmore, has died. Although the police have ruled the death a suicide, Dan's wife, Sheila, believes her husband was murdered and pleads with Jon to help her prove it. Despite conflicting evidence and an uncooperative police detective, the case...

The first book of 'Tales of the Triad'. Seven billion people die overnight, killed by a change affecting entire galaxies. John, a resident of Florida, awakens to find himself on a plateau half a mile high in central Florida, the only survivor in the entire state. Others awaken and find themselves...

Clinical pharmacist Jon Masters seems to have it all. But still haunted by his days in Special Forces, Jon’s life implodes when evidence found at a murder scene implicates him in an elaborate scheme to distribute a pharmaceutical quality street drug disguised as an experimental medication.With...

In this short story, J.L. Murray weaves a tale of clockwork hearts, witches, love, and magic. In a world both strange and familiar, a girl with a clockwork heart has fallen in love. But this is no ordinary fairy tale, and nothing is as it seems. From dancing bears to magical rubies,  impossible trinkets...

Alchemy requires sacrifice, and Petra knows all about that. She’s given up family, home, sanity – for a man she thought was a wizard. But that sacrifice might be in vain. Izvalta’s sociopathic king is on a murderous quest for immortality and foreigners have come searching for her secrets....