Debra Gaskill: 16 books

The Southern Ohio Writers and Readers Collaborative, SOWriters for short, is a writers’ critique group which, in true social media form, accepts members online through several different websites. The group began meeting in 2013 at local restaurants, book stores, and the Ross County Library until...

Barns are burning on farms all around Jubilant Falls, Ohio —but that's the least of newspaper editor Addison McIntyre's problems. The daughter of Golgotha College president Dr. Seaford Thorn has come up missing — along with $500,000 from the college's endowment fund. When Addison's own daughter...

Times are tough in the newspaper business these days. In between staff cuts, furloughs and declining advertising dollars, Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette editor Addison McIntyre hasn’t got time to listen when candidate Rick Starrett claims his opponent Virginia Ferguson ran a dirty state senate...

The news is as slow as the lazy, final days of summer in Jubilant Falls when editor Addison McIntyre drives out to the Lunatic Fringe farm, to interview Russian-born Ekaterina Bolodenka for a story on her award-winning weaving and the llamas and alpacas she raises there. But there's something...

TOXIC FITZ IS A FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SILVER FALCHION AWARD FOR BEST SUSPENSE Hometown star Nora Solomon was poised for fame when she was found dead in her barn. It's a sad end to a long acting career that was ready to explode with the upcoming release of two movies. Then Nora's nephew...

There are blondes — and then there are high maintenance blondes. And Eve Dahlgren was a high maintenance blonde, even forty years ago in high school. When Eve ends up dead, and Journal-Gazette publisher Earlene Whitelaw is arrested for her murder, it looks like an open and shut case. It's...

Times are tough in the newspaper business these days. In between staff cuts, furloughs and declining advertising dollars, Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette editor Addison McIntyre hasn’t got time to listen when candidate Rick Starrett claims his opponent Virginia Ferguson ran a dirty state...

The women in the life of private investigator Niccolo Fitzhugh aren’t making things easy for him at all. His mother has told Father O’Malley, the priest at St. Rita, he would investigate—for free—the case of Aileen O’Connor, who lost $50,000 to con man Benedict St. Giles and who believes...

Think your husband is unfaithful? Call Fitz. Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh is the retired cop who runs Fitzhugh Investigations, whose business revolves around digging up dirt for local divorce lawyers. He knows, maybe better than anyone, how an unfaithful male thinks. After all, his police...

WINNER OF THE 2018 SILVER FALCHION AWARD FOR BEST SUSPENSE! A Saturday of ballistic therapy at the Fawcettville gun range turns bloody for PI Niccolo 'Fitz' Fitzhugh when local social worker and community theater star Anna Maria Ippolito is found murdered in her home. It's personal too—he's...

What’s scarier for Rust Belt PI Niccolo Fitzhugh? A dead body in the back of burning car or waking up in bed with prosecutor Alicia Linnerman after a blistering drunk?  Fitz’s life has been turned upside the death of his beloved wife Gracie. Outside of work, he’s holed up at home alone,...

In this short story, Susan returns to a Southern Ohio cabin to hide the evidence of a twenty-year affair with Benjamin, Miriam's husband. When Miriam shows up at the cabin, both women learn the terrible cost love can exact.

When Marcus Henning came to the Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette in 1982, he was looking for the one story that would change his career, give him credibility after screwing up a story in another town. Instead, he fell in love —and lost— the fiery redhead Kay James when she married an Air Force fighter...

Audrey Londonderry was just twenty-one when her first novel became a blow-out literary success, but the story of her own life is one she still has questions about.  Raised by a mentally ill father and a bitter, self-centered mother, Audrey doesn’t know what’s true or false in her life,...