Books and Stories
Day One
A young woman flees abuse; a teen runaway hides a dark secret; an ex-cop chases his own past. All three converge at the harrowing end of a trail of violence stretching from the high desert to the streets of Portland.
“Readers will get caught up in this thriller's various plot threads, which will lead them to a sad yet satisfying conclusion.”
- June 2010 from Tyrus Books
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First Thrills
edited by Lee Child
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child has teamed up
with the International Thriller Writers for First Thrills, a
showcase of many of the organization’s bestselling authors as
well as rising stars in the genre.
- Forge Books, June 2010
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Portland Noir
edited by Kevin Sampsell
In a city full of police controversies, hippie artist punk houses, and overzealous liberals, Portland, Oregon, is a place where even its fiction blurs with its bizarre realities.
“The home of Chuck Palahniuk, Powell’s City of Books—and the place with more strip clubs per capita than any other city in America—gets its due in this splendid entry in Akashic’s noir series.”
—Publishers Weekly
- Akashic Books, June 2009
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Chasing Smoke
★ Starred review from Library Journal
2009 Spotted Owl Award Runner Up
Portland homicide detective Skin Kadash just wants to survive treatment for bladder cancer long enough to get back to work. But when his partner asks him to look into a series of deaths, he’s not interested — he's sick and doesn't need the grief — until she tells him the victims all suffered from cancer and all were being treated by the same doctor treating Skin.
- Bleak House Books, November 2008
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Killer Year: Stories to Die For
edited by Lee Child
An anthology of stories from the Killer Year authors, plus contributions from Ken Bruen, Allison Brennan, Duane Swierczynski, MJ Rose and Laura Lippman. Available from St. Martin’s Minotaur. The Chicago Tribune said, "Bill Cameron's ‘Slice of Pie’ is an irony-filled gem."
- St. Martin's Minotaur, January 2008
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Lost Dog
2008 Rocky Award Nominee
2008 Spotted Owl Award Runner Up
Early on a sodden Portland, Oregon morning, Peter McKrall, unemployed smart-ass and kleptomaniac, goes to the park to find his niece's lost toy dog. He doesn't realize his search is being watched by the paranoid killer of the dead hooker he finds instead.
"...a heart-stopping, tightly-woven debut by a remarkable new crime-fiction writer"
—Anne Frasier, USA Today Bestselling Author of Pale Immortal and Garden of Darkness
- Midnight Ink, April 2007
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Stories and Other Writing
Counterflow (a short story)
- Finalist in the 2008 Press 53 Open Awards, Short Short Story Category
- Hear Counterflow read by Alan Vogel on Lit 103.3: Fiction For the Ears, starting Tuesday, July 8 through July 15. Streaming live July 8 at 1pm EDT, or available as a podcast throughout the week. Fiction for the Ears is broadcast on Valley Free Radio, Northampton, Massachusetts.
On the Road to Find Out (a short story)
Kept Woman (a short story)
Originally Published in The Dunes Review
A Tall House
Originally published in Spinetingler Magazine December
2006
The Failure of the Persistence of Memory (a poem)
Motion (a poem)