McCall - Malone Series Archives

Going “Real Book”

Written by glenn on November 9, 2015 · Leave a Comment

Let’s get the Breaking News out of the way: The entire McCall-Malone Mystery series is going to be available in print! Which is to say, existing in the real world: On actual paper, available to be bought in a bookstore, checked out of a library, held in your hand, given […]

And One More for the New Year

Written by glenn on January 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment

I expect to finish the draft of DYING OF DESIRE, the fourth book in the McCall-Malone Mystery series, within a few weeks. So I’ve decided to follow up last month’s teaser with one more before publication…sometime in April maybe? We’ll see. Anyway, here you go…. The three of us stopped […]

A Teaser for Christmas

Written by glenn on December 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment

DYING OF DESIRE, the fourth book in the McCall-Malone Mystery series will be out in 2015. Once again McCall and Malone are in jeopardy as they very tentatively explore a relationship. A young man named George Heatherly wants the two Portland, Oregon, private investigators to simply look into the finances […]

Major Teaser! Chapter One of One Deadly Game!

Written by glenn on March 23, 2014 · Leave a Comment

NOTE: Since I haven’t finished writing the book and thus have not completed my edits, I can’t guarantee that this is word-for-word what the first chapter will look like when I’m done…but it’s at least very close to the finished product. I hope you enjoy it and that it makes […]

The Writing Life

Written by glenn on July 27, 2013 · 2 Comments

I don’t know anything more exciting than starting a new book – nor anything more scary than finishing one. In the beginning there’s a wonderful new story forming in your imagination, growing and blossoming and spreading out like the most beautiful flower you’ve ever seen. (Yes, it’s that good.) There […]

Decease and Desist – Second Teaser

Written by glenn on May 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment

A second excerpt from Decease and Desist, coming in October: It took him all the way to the sidewalk in front of the building, but Fallis finally asked me why I wanted to know about keys. I’d just opened my mouth to evade the question when I registered a black […]

Decease and Desist – Early Teaser

Written by glenn on April 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment

An excerpt from Decease and Desist, coming in October: I’d just re-shelved the Elizabeth Peters mystery I was leafing through and taken a step toward the front of the store when there appeared in the entrance-way a shambling six-footer with ragged jeans, tattered jacket, shaved head and scowling demeanor. He […]

A Quick Brawl in Downtown Portland

Written by glenn on February 11, 2013 · Leave a Comment

An action scene from Turnabout is Fatal Play, the first of the McCall-Malone mysteries. A quick brawl ensues when three young men attempt to take on Clint McCall, Devon Malone, and Reuben Keys — without much success: By this time, Reuben was closing with us, grinning in recognition. “Hey, Reuben,” […]

And Here’s Our Villain….

Written by glenn on February 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment

There are occasional chapters in Turnabout is Fatal Play from the point of view of the villain. This is from one of those: It had been so long since he’d felt a true thrill, a new thrill. So very long. It was wonderful that he’d finally found a reason, a […]

McCall Meets Malone

Written by glenn on January 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Trying something a little different. The next few weeks I think I will occasionally post short excerpts from Turnabout is Fatal Play, the first of the McCall-Malone Mystery series. This is when Clint McCall discovers that Devon Malone seems to be following the same person he is: I first met […]