Marble City Publishing: 31 books

What is the basic toolkit for writing a novel? The New Author by Ruby Barnes puts you on the right track with fundamentals of plot, pace & structure, planning, characters, settings, dialog and editing. How does a new author establish an 'author platform'? Read straightforward instructions...

MEET two unusual detectives. Ludovico - a young man who has had his testicles cut off for the sake of opera. And Monsieur Arouet - a fraudster, or just possibly the philosopher Voltaire. VISIT the setting. Carnival time in mid-18th century Venice, a city of winter mists, and the season of masquerade...

Take an inner city estate, knife crime, an over-ambitious wannabe tabloid journalist and a dodgy PR agent - then add the police, restless locals and a riot - and you have a fast moving satirical thriller that exposes the underbelly of modern urban life. When the secret love-child of a famous...

A French aristocrat and his mistress are murdered. A mysterious businessman offers the Fuehrer’s diaries to a New York publishing house. Are the Hitler Diaries a hoax or a Nazi record of terrifying truth? The publisher struggles with his own memories of atrocities in the Holocaust and decides...

Those who come after us will want to know we really lived and loved as intensely as they do. Tell them. WHO ARE YOU? WHY DO YOU ACT THE WAY THAT YOU DO? These questions capture the essential things we want to know about ourselves and explain to others. Yet so often we fail to do so. Instead many of...

The ninjas have escaped from the undead army, but at a heavy cost. Mount Leinster has become a killing ground; thousands lie shattered in the foothills. John Baptist and de Nazarene will march again to eradicate the humans. It is time to leave. All that the ninjas knew and loved is destroyed. Is there a safe haven on this Earth? Is this the end for the human race?  

For Colonel Pyotr Andreevitch Kirov there is only one inescapable truth in modern Russia – if the old order does not change, it is impossible to bury the past. When Kirov's routine investigation into black market antibiotics is linked to the former head of the KGB – and Kirov himself is put under...

Seven short stories and a novella. A party guest walks into a cupboard and is never seen again… A family man lives a lie… A woman 's love of cats takes a dark turn… An angel crashes his chariot on a test drive… …The seven short stories in this short, yet perfectly-formed, collection...

The dead are coming alive on an island in the North Atlantic Ocean. A bullet isn’t going to stop them. They feel no pain. Flesh-eating walkers have been taking sheep and cattle from the fields. A minor inconvenience until someone, or something, starts to organize them. A force of pure evil, building...

Death is sweeping the land, sinking its poison teeth into the flesh of the living. Female undead are bearing young, a new clone species that will threaten humanity. A mystical leader is breeding a hybrid army of mutants and undead. The ninjas must cleanse the land of abomination,...

The teenage John Baptist murdered his brother. Their parents couldn't get over the loss of two sons - one drowned in a bubble bath and the other put away in a secure mental institution - so took their own lives. But John had no regrets - his brother was evil and had to die. Electrotherapy wiped John's...

A moment of madness. His choices. Their lives. Gerard Mayes is in a mess. During a mugging gone wrong, he kills his assailant and becomes the blackmail target of a vicious Romanian crime gang. In a deadly struggle to cast off the gang's net, Ger becomes more entangled. Can he find a way out and save those he loves?

An anthology of twenty-one crime, mystery, suspense and romance stories from nineteen authors, including Emmy-nominated John Goldsmith and Booker-nominated Jim Williams. This global collection of short stories from 400 to 7000 words covers everything from crime fiction to romantic suspense...

His choices. Their lives. Released from maximum security prison, Gerard Mayes sits on a Dublin park bench, a blonde woman's fragrant head in a bag at his feet. He should have got the hell out of Dodge when D.I. Andy McAuliffe told him to. How has it come to this? And whose head is in the bag?