John Miller: 56 books

Southern Pacific Railroad Detective Pima Gallagher is asked by the Santa Fe Railroad to help track down who might be smuggling whiskey to the huge Navajo Reservation. When he suddenly disappears, Pima’s stepdaughter, fifteen-year-old Scout Walker, convinces her mother, Ellen, to travel with her...

Murder, arson, robbery, rape, and kidnapping are alive and well in Tucson, Arizona during the blistering hot summer of 1894. Are they the result of several unrelated acts or the work of one criminal mastermind? Pima Gallagher, a detective for the Southern Pacific Railroad, must try to keep his landlady’s...

Besides having a really bizarre nickname, Three-Zee Zook can see and talk to ghosts. What’s bothering her about her latest sighting is that she’s also seen his corpse lying in the woods, except it disappears and she can find no evidence of it ever having been there. With the ghost hanging around...

Cape Cod is magical at any time of year. However, many permanent residents, including sisters Rachel and Beth Brewster, find it hard to make ends meet during the cold, lonely winter months, which is why they must work extra-long hours at multiple jobs all through the short summer season to save enough...

Fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Markham, and her best friend, Jennifer Martin, decide to host an innocent Halloween party for some schoolmates at the Victorian mansion of Mary Ann’s wealthy grandfather. Her live-in writing coach, Art Parker, and his fiancée, Marsha Brown, M.D., have joined the other...

Eighteen and now legally adults, Mary Ann Markham and best friend, Jennifer Martin, offer to help a high school friend find out who murdered her boyfriend at a nearby trout nursery. However, instead of quickly identifying the killer the girls are hounded by additional bodies that may or may not be...

Art and Marsha Parker finally have a chance to get away for a week from Marsha’s medical clinic in the small town of Bearford to visit a plush resort for a honeymoon, a gift from their wealthy benefactor, Charles Drummond. Somehow their adopted sixteen-year-old daughter, Mary Ann Markham, who is...

Seventeen-year-old Mary Ann Markham and her best friend, Jennifer Martin, decide to audition with a local amateur theatrical group. They plan to drag along Art Parker, Mary Ann’s adoptive father, until they discover that the tryouts have been postponed because of a dead body cluttering the stage....

A dead man leaves his money to his father and niece, but who is the dead man? A man’s body lies on a narrow ledge in a remote Arizona canyon, but who is he? Is the old gold mine really a mine? Why was the girl murdered behind the mountain cabin? What’s it like to be lost in a desert mountain range...

Zelanie Zephora Zook (Three-Zee to her friends) and her best friend, Bambi Bamberger, visit Ocean City, New Jersey for a week of sun and surf. Instead, they encounter the ghost of a beautiful surfer who has no idea where, why, or how she died, except that it’s obvious the knife wound in her chest...

A beautiful mid-autumn day, just the day for a Sunday drive in the country. At least that's what former journalist Art Parker, his wife, Dr. Marsha Parker, their sixteen-year-old adopted daughter, Mary Ann Markham, and her best friend, Jennifer Martin, think when they visit a hilltop in the western...

Lance Corporal prides himself on being the best professional killers. He's never missed a shot. But when his grandfather dies, he finds himself remembering the past and how it shaped his character. This story is part of the printed collection, Bones of the Woods.

Four short stories:  "Bestest of All" is about one family helping another family celebrate Christmas; "The Christmas Bat" is tells what an attendant at a children's psychiatric hospital realizes when he works one Christmas Eve; "Gifting" is a series of vignettes about...

Spring is springing in the Pocono Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania, and Three-Zee Zook (Zelanie Zephora Zook, to be exact) and her best friend, Bambi Bamberger, are enjoying the emerging wildflowers and budding branches as they begin their new jobs at the luxurious Mountain Woods resort. That is,...