Michael Grant: 19 books

An escalating game of Rock-Paper-Scissors is played to an unexpected conclusion.A blind date between two werewolves does not have a happy ending.The middle school science fair has a frightening entry vying for first place.A parking garage holds a special surprise for one late night visitor.HORROR...

In 1845 a blight of unknown origin destroyed the potato crop in Ireland triggering a series of events that would change forever the course of Ireland’s history. The British government called the famine an act of God. The Irish called it genocide. By any name the famine caused the death of over one...

Manhattan is the continuing saga of Michael and Emily Ranahan’s life as recounted in In The Time Of Famine. In fleeing the famine in Ireland to find a new life in the New World, they come ashore at New York City on an island called Manhattan, a chaotic, odoriferous city filled with rascals, ne’er’...

Captain Richard Leland is a rising star in the NYPD. Young, bright, and super ambitious, his goal is to be the police commissioner by the time he’s forty. He’s right on track, but then department politics rears its ugly head. All his carefully laid plans are suddenly thrown into jeopardy when...

Life is good for Paul Ducane. He’s happily married with a promising career as a political science professor and consultant. But all that changes when his bright young graduate student, Jeff Levin, hacks into a government computer and downloads a file from a mysterious organization called the National...

Imagine what it would be like to go back in time to the 15th century Venice. And imagine what it would be like to meet your lifelong hero, Michelangelo. And imagine what it would be like if, on first meeting, you spill a tray of pasta and wine on that very same hero.Well, that’s what happens to...

Every year more than a million women are stalked annually in the United States, which means that one in 12 women will be stalked in her lifetime.Sheila Kendall will soon become one those million women. The daughter of a Navy SEAL killed in action, she is a talented Juilliard student who dreams of...

Lieutenant Neal Devlin is not only the best sharpshooter in the NYPD, he’s also skilled at shooting off his mouth. This time it gets him bounced off an elite SWAT team and into cop Siberia—the Traffic Division. Rather than face a slow death there, he takes a job as a security chief for Taggert...

It is the number that should invoke fear in all of us. Does it frighten you? Somewhere lurking within these 33 tales of flash-fiction true terror exists for those brave enough to read on.Travel along with; a generations spanning cannibal clan eating their way through America to serial killers...

Haddley Falls, a sleepy, bucolic New England town, relies on tourism for its economic survival. But then the unthinkable happens: A man and a woman are brutally murdered on a sailboat anchored in the town's cove. Understandably, these murders throw the resort town into chaos, but no one has more...

When it comes to interpersonal communications, Cool Hand Luke said it best: "What we've got here is a failure to communicate."And that statement was never truer than it is for the two characters in Dear Son, Hey Ma.Even in the best of times, meaningful dialogue between a mother and son can be...

Follow the adventures and travails of Joey Boddaboom and Vinny Boddabing, two Mafia guys who are confronted with all the unpleasant aspects of “change in their everyday workplace.” Marone, it ain’t easy!Who Moved My Friggin’ Provolone? is a spoof on Spencer Johnson’s very fine book, Who Moved My Cheese, a serious book on management principles.

It’s October of 1940, and Nancy Cavanaugh is a happily married woman with three young children and one on the way. The only serious rift between her and her husband, Connor, is a debt-ridden farm in Ireland that Connor inherited from his father. He has dreams of one day going back to Ireland to...

Dan Grier is a serious writer. At least that’s what he thought until his debut book tanked. It seems the critics loved it, but, alas, no one thought enough of it to actually buy it. Desperate for money, he turns to the serious writer’s version of hell on earth—writing pulp fiction. With little...