Mark Richard Zubro
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Mark Richard Zubro is a gay American mystery novelist and junior high school teacher. He lives in Mokena, Illinois, a town in the northeastern section of the state, and teaches 8th grade English at Summit Hill Jr. High in nearby Frankfort Square, Illinois.
Zubro writes bestselling mysteries set in Chicago and the surrounding Cook County area, which are widely praised as fast-paced, with interesting plots and well-rounded, likeable characters.
His longest running series features high school teacher Tom Mason, and Tom's boyfriend, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter. The other series Zubro is known for is the Paul Turner mysteries, about a Chicago police detective. The books are a part of the Stonewall Inn Mystery series, published by St. Martin's Press. Zubro is a past winner of the Lambda Literary Award.
He once auctioned off the name of a character in his books for the Save the Children's charity. The winner requested that the character be named 'KOMPRESSOR' after famous German industrial musician, KOMPRESSOR. Although Zubro had good intentions, the usage of 'KOMPRESSOR' was incorrect throughout the book because it lacked proper capitalization. There is a lawsuit pending.
[edit] Books
[edit] Tom and Scott Mysteries
- A Simple Suburban Murder (1990)
- Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead? (1991)
- The Only Good Priest (1991)
- The Principal Cause of Death (1992)
- An Echo of Death (1995)
- Rust on the Razor (1996)
- Are You Nuts? (1999)
- One Dead Drag Queen (2001)
- Here Comes the Corpse (2002)
- File Under Dead (2004)
- Everyone's Dead But Us (2006)
