Michael Gruber
Formerly a ghostwriter for Robert K. Tanenbaum, Michael Gruber is the author of a seires of novels that blends the horror of the supernatural with the mystery of the detective novel.
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 Night of the Jaguar  |
Night of the Jaguar (The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy #3)Author: Gruber, Michael |
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Night of the Jaguar (The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy #3)Author: Gruber, Michael |
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Deep in the jungles of Colombia, an American priest is shot dead in his makeshift church. A few weeks later an Indian shaman called Moie arrives in south Florida, armed only with a bag of totems and the fearsome power of Jaguar, his god. In Miami, retired detective Jimmy Paz, his wife, and his seven-year-old daughter are plagued by dreams of giant jungle cats that haunt both their sleeping and waking hours. When affluent Miami businessmen begin to die in gruesome fashion, the local police are baffled by the lack of clues — other than the massive, catlike footprints that appear at the scene of each murder. They turn to Paz, famous throughout the city for cracking open two previous, impossible-to-solve cases, and for reasons he doesn’t dare share, he agrees to come out of his self-imposed retirement to track the killer. As Paz investigates, Moie finds refuge with a group of ecologically minded activists who treat the strange little man as a pet until they find out exactly what mission brought him to the United States and that it’s somehow connected to the grisly murders that are occurring with frightening regularity. The deeper Paz digs into the case, the closer to home the danger gets: his investigation opens the door to his mysterious and shocking past and he slowly begins to realize that the dreams he and his family are having could mean the death of his beloved daughter. To save her life — and his own — he must reach into the deepest corners of his soul and find the strength to hold fast against the irresistible pull of the spirit world. |
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 Valley of Bones  |
Valley of Bones (The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy #2)Author: Gruber, Michael |
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 Valley of Bones  |
Valley of Bones (The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy #2)Author: Gruber, Michael |
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 Valley of Bones  |
Valley of Bones (The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy #2)Author: Gruber, Michael |
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The body of a wealthy oilman plunges ten stories from the balcony of a Miami hotel, and is impaled on an iron fence below. In the dead man’s room, Jimmy Paz, the famed detective who solved the grisly Voodoo Murders, and Tito Morales, a young cop who witnessed the fall, find a woman on her knees, engaged in intimate conversation with Saint Catherine of Siena. Emmylou Dideroff had a strong motive for murder, and the evidence against her is overwhelming — but she insists she’s innocent of the crime, while freely admitting her guilt in numerous other amoral and unspeakable acts. And the shocking confessions of this complex enigma — abused victim or vengeful whore, god-touched prophetess or delusional psychopath, demon or saint — are leading Paz, Morales, and psychologist Lorna Wise into a terrifying dance with the Devil himself. |
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 Tropic of Night  |
Tropic of Night (The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy #1)Author: Gruber, Michael |
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 Tropic of Night  |
Tropic of Night (The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy #1)Author: Gruber, Michael |
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 Tropic of Night  |
Tropic of Night (The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy #1)Author: Gruber, Michael |
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Jane Doe lives in the shadows under an assumed name. A once-promising anthropologist and an expert on shamanism, everyone thinks she’s dead. Or so she hopes. Jimmy Paz is a Cuban-American police detective. Straddling two cultures, he understands things others cannot. When the killings start — a series of ritualistic murders — all of Miami is terrified. Especially Jane. She knows the dark truth that Jimmy must desperately search to uncover. As their lives slowly interconnect, Jane and Paz are soon caught in a cataclysmic battle between good and an evil as unimaginable as it is terrifying . . . |
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 The Forgery of Venus  |
The Forgery of VenusAuthor: Gruber, Michael |
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 Book of Air and Shadows  |
Book of Air and ShadowsAuthor: Gruber, Michael |
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 Book of Air and Shadows  |
Book of Air and ShadowsAuthor: Gruber, Michael |
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 Book of Air and Shadows  |
Book of Air and ShadowsAuthor: Gruber, Michael |
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A distinguished Shakespearean scholar found tortured to death . . . A lost manuscript and its secrets buried for centuries . . . An encrypted map that leads to incalculable wealth . . . Tap-tapping the keys and out come the words on this little screen, and who will read them I hardly know. I could be dead by the time anyone actually gets to read them, as dead as, say, Tolstoy. Or Shakespeare. Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives? These are the words of Jake Mishkin, whose seemingly innocent job as an intellectual property lawyer has put him at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killer — or killers — unknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began when a fire in an antiquarian bookstore revealed the hiding place of letters containing a shocking secret, concealed for four hundred years. In a frantic race from New York to England and Switzerland, Jake finds himself matching wits with a shadowy figure who seems to anticipate his every move. What at first seems like a thrilling puzzle waiting to be deciphered soon turns into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, where no one — not family, not friends, not lovers — is to be trusted. Moving between twenty-first-century America and seventeenth-century England, The Book of Air and Shadows is a modern thriller that brilliantly re-creates William Shakespeare’s life at the turn of the seventeenth century and combines an ingenious and intricately layered plot with a devastating portrait of a contemporary man on the brink of self-discovery . . . or self-destruction. |
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Children’s Books
 Witch’s Boy  |
Witch’s BoyAuthor: Gruber, Michael |
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 Witch’s Boy  |
Witch’s BoyAuthor: Gruber, Michael |
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They call him Lump. Ugly, misshapen — more goblin than human child — abandoned as an infant and taken in by a witch, he is nursed by a bear, tutored by a djinn; his only playmates are the creatures of the forest, whose language he learns to speak. But when Lump inevitably stumbles into the human world, his innocence is no match for the depths of people’s cruelty, which turns his heart to stone, and fuels a vengeance that places him and his witch mother in deadly peril. Yet these disasters also send Lump on a journey of self-discovery, to realms deep within the earth and far beyond mortal imagination. In this stunning fantasy debut, Michael Gruber has created a world that is at once deceptively familiar and stunningly original, a world of cruelty, beauty, legend, truth, and above all, wonder. Readers will delight in the author’s ingenious retelling of classic fairy tales and will marvel at the stunning new tale of a boy raised by a witch, a cat, a bear, and a demon. |
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Summary:
Title List:
1. Tropic of Night
2. Valley of Bones
3. Witch’s Boy
4. Night of the Jaguar
5. Book of Air and Shadows
6. The Forgery of Venus
Title List: The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy
1. Tropic of Night
2. Valley of Bones
3. Night of the Jaguar
Weblinks List:
Michael Gruber’s Official Web Site
Series Page Link:
The “Jimmy” Paz Trilogy
