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Earl Merkel's Books

Virgins And Martyrs: An Aria Quynn Novel
Apr.16.2008
… A powerful bomb destroys a family planning clinic in the Northwest Florida town of Spanish Bay; as firefighters and other first-responders engage in a desperate attempt at rescue, a follow-up bomb, timed to catch them unaware, detonates with lethal results. … A 13-year-old girl collapses in a Spanish Bay shopping mall,inexplicably displaying the marks of stigmata on her palms....
Dirty Fire
Oct.01.2003
A Fortune Worth Dying To Obtain. A Secret Worth Killing To Keep... Once, police detective John Davey had everything-- until bribery charges destroyed his life. Now he's been given a second chance. He's asked to join the investigation into the baffling murder of a Chicago coulpe who were shot to death before their North Shore mansion was set ablaze. To the city, it's a scandal....
Final Epidemic: hardcover edition
This is how the world ends... An invisible killer has returned. The last time it raged, upward of forty million died-- in a matter of months. Now it is back, released to prey on an unsuspecting, unprotected world. This time, nothing can stop it. ---- The first case appears on a flawless spring morning, initially diagnosed as a common cold, or perhaps a mild flu. Then the deaths...