Michael Hughes: 63 books

The year is 1979. Malaise, stagflation, turmoil in the Middle East, and a gas crunch; these things are but background noise for what unfolds when a lovesick businessman and a sociopathic drifter cross paths. John Nix, business manager of a Silicon Valley semiconductor startup, picks up Horace Fullworth,...

A scotch-swilling DUI attorney, a cynical congressional staffer, and a retired bomb- sniffing German Shepherd are just some of the characters Chuck Wesson meets after he takes a travel assignment from his new boss, mysterious Silicon Valley entrepreneur Axel DeWilde. Chuck has been sent on a flight...

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States....

For the last ten years, Dave Purenut has lived at Milton Hershey School, an all-boys school for orphans in Chocolate Town, USA, doing just what hes supposed to. Not any more. Told to set the example as the only senior in his student home, Dave refuses and soon discovers that getting into trouble has...

Michael M. Hughes’s Blackwater Lights combines the eldritch horror of H. P. Lovecraft with the supernatural thrills of Dean Koontz.   When Ray Simon receives a desperate call from his childhood friend Kevin, begging him to come visit, Ray can’t say no. Kevin promises to clue him in on shocking...

The heir to H. P. Lovecraft by way of Dean Koontz, Michael M. Hughes returns with a new tale of paranormal horror—the hair-raising follow-up to Blackwater Lights. Thrown together in the fight against a deadly supernatural conspiracy, Ray Simon, Ellen Davis, and Ellen’s young son, William,...

When Ty Connell takes down a gang banger in a back alley incident, he pulls a fully automatic weapon from his back belt. But it turns out to be no ordinary weapon. It is unregistered and untraceable. It has no manufacture stamps and no markings of any kind. And most chilling? It has a replaceable...

Dani O'Banion is an impulsive, hot-headed twenty-two year old with a big problem. Her multi-million dollar inheritance is due soon from her late mother’s estate and her stepfather is not only executor of the will, but also one of New York’s dirtiest crime lords: John O'Banion. And she’s been...

Det. Ty Connell has never met anyone as lovely, gentle, exquisite, and captivating as Ronalee Rayner. A truly breathtaking beauty. He meets her at a friend's fashion photography studio, a model who has come in for a shoot. The friend says that she's the sweetest girl he's worked with and hasn't an...

Dr. Julia Reesman is a "cut girl," a rookie Medical Examiner and a woman with much to prove. To the world. To herself. That she can put the shadowy effects of PTSD behind her. When she's called in as an outside consult to a disturbing multiple homicide at a quiet country estate she panics....

When Det. Ty Connell picks up word of an active crime scene on the police band on his drive in to work, he decides to swing by and have a quick look. When he gets there his sometimes partner, John Henry Morgan, is already on the scene and dealing with it. When he realizes that it’s ‘Slim Vinnie’...

Ty Connell Noir Collection: 3 Noir Novellas: * Momma Lupe * Bore of the Barrel * The Death and Deconstruction of a Natural Beauty. "Evil. Tragic. Disturbing." MOMMA LUPE She was sadistic and savage. But who is the shadowy and mysterious figure known as Momma Lupe? When Connell finds...

Dr. Julia Reesman is a "cut girl," a rookie Medical Examiner at the Boston ME’s office, and a woman with much to prove. To the world. To herself. That she can put the shadowy and crippling effects of PTSD behind her. When she's called in as an outside consult to a disturbing and freakish multiple...

Bobbi Stratos PI is everyone’s go-to girl now facing burnout. What she needs is a holiday. What she gets is to be thrown blind into a messy movieland multiple homicide case with a bully film producer and all his baggage, an individualistic cop obsessed with a little girl’s murder, a sadistic hit...