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| Casey Dorman |
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| Welcome to the page for Casey Dorman's Southern California mysteries and thrillers. Here you will find descriptons and excerpts from his novels. |
| A California Gothic - The idyllic town of San Tomas, a Mecca for spiritual seekers, artists, and writers is also home to a mysterious, high-security treatment center for dangerous delinquents. When one of the center’s residents is brutally murdered and a local boy is accused of the crime, in steps Brian McGowan, a lawyer whose forced retirement following a heart attack has left him bored and hating the world. What looks like a simple crime of teenage passion turns out to be a cover-up of illegal experimentation with genetic engineering. When the experiments go wrong and an army of genetically altered teenage hoodlums is loosed upon San Tomas, it is up to Brian McGowan to save the town. To read an excerpt from California Gothic, click here California Gothic was a finalist for the 2004 EPPIE Award for best e-book thriller California Gothic is no longer available as an e-book. I am looking for an agent or publisher who is interested in publishing the novel as a print book |
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Murder in Paradise 1959- Orange County California – A young socialite and her companion are brutally murdered. 2003 – the murder is reenacted in The Pink Carnation Murders, a film about the still unsolved killings, but this time the two young actors playing the parts of the dead teenagers are themselves killed. A bizarre accident or murder? That’s the question independently wealthy Professor Phineas Routledge must answer when his student, the sister of one of the actors, asks him to help her discover the cause of her brother’s death. One death leads to another as Phineas and his beautiful Vietnamese wife, Kim (click here and see a picture of Kim - a.k.a. Casey's wife, Lai) unearth a conspiracy that has lasted for nearly forty-five years. It is a conspiracy that has concealed a powerful crime figure operating just below the surface in the land of sunshine and affluence and the lives of Phineas and Kim are in danger from the moment they discover it. Read an excerpt from Pink Carnation |
| Pink Carnation Available in paperback at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.com |
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| III, Carlos -published in hardback by Seven Locks Press in November 2004. I, Carlos is an imaginative thriller in which a revolutionary computer chip, containing the personality of Carlos the Jackal, the world's most notorious assassin, is transplanted into the protagonist's brain, who is set out to kill the president of the United States. Read excerpt |
| "I, Carlos raises important issues about machine intelligence and personal identity and incorporates these into a plot sure to make ordinary readers care about them." Richard Hanley, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, author of "The Metaphysics of Star Trek" "An impossible to put down tale that mixes science fiction with the classic detective thriller..." Richard Evans, author of "Machine Nation" "...powerfully written and its premise is eerily plausible" Ron McGraw, author of "Harry Black and the Delphi Conspiracy" |
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| Profits from Pink Carnation are being donated to the Orange County Children's Therapeutic Art Center in Santa Ana, CA |
| Book Signings: December 15, 2004 - Mystery Bookstore, L.A. January 14, 2005: Barnes and Noble, Orange, CA March 19th, 2005, 2:00 p.m. Borders, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, CA March 25th, 2005 7:30 p.m., Elliot Bay Books, Seattle, WA April 9, Barnes and Noble, Aliso Viejo, CA May 14, 2005 Barnes and Noble, San Diego, CA |
| Meet Casey at NORWESCON 28, the Northwest Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention in Seattle, WA , March 24-27, 2005 |
| Buy I, Carlos at Amazon for a 32% discount! Click here |
| I, Carlos has been optioned by John Kuri Productions for development as a motion picture script! Click here |
| Meet Casey Dorman at the Seven Locks Press Booth at the LA Times Festival of Books April 23 and 24, 2005 on the Campus of UCLA |