Mark Richard Zubro Books in Order
Mark Richard Zubro has written 38 books, published between 1988 and 2024. The first book is A Simple Suburban Murder (1988) and the newest is Peace (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 38
- Published
- 1988–2024
- Pages on record
- 5,977 in 23 of 38 books
- Reading time
- 100–149 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,977 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 23 of 38 titles with a page count on record.
Mark Richard Zubro writes mysteries set in Chicago and the surrounding Cook County. The longest sequence pairs high school teacher Tom Mason with his boyfriend Scott Carpenter, a professional baseball player, from A Simple Suburban Murder (1988) onward. The Paul Turner books follow a gay Chicago police detective. Gay themes run through the fiction, and Zubro is gay. Seven groupings hold the 38 catalogued titles, which reach Peace in 2024. Zubro taught 8th grade English in Illinois and lives in Mokena.
Source: Wikidata
How many Mark Richard Zubro books are there?
Mark Richard Zubro has 38 books, released between 1988 and 2024. They include 6 separate series.
Mark Richard Zubro Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 38 Mark Richard Zubro books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of October 2026.
- 119882241/4
- 219901891/4
- 319911791/4
- 419911921/4
- 519921821/4
- 61993–1/4
- 719941941/4
- 81995–1/4
- 919962241/4
- 1019972111/4
- 1119982431/4
- 1219992561/4
- 1320002461/4
- 1420013041/4
- 1520022731/4
- 1620032801/4
- 1720042641/4
- 1820052611/4
- 1920062771/4
- 2020073361/4
- 2120082941/4
- 222011–1/4
- 232012–1/4
- 2420133851/4
- 252013–1/4
- 2620143211/4
- 2720142511/4
- 282016–1/4
- 2920163911/4
- 302017–1/4
- 312017–1/4
- 322020–1/4
- 332023–1/4
- 342023–1/4
- 352023–1/4
- 362024–1/4
- 372024–1/4
- 382024–1/4
Mark Richard Zubro books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Tom Mason and Scott Carpenter in order
14 books- 1. A Simple Suburban Murder
- 2. Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?
- 3. The Only Good Priest
- 4. The Principal Cause of Death
- 5. An Echo of Death
- 6. Rust on the Razor
- 7. Are You Nuts?
- 8. One Dead Drag Queen
- 9. Here Comes the Corpse
- 10. File Under Dead
- 11. Everyone's Dead But Us
- 12. Schooled in Murder
- and 2 more in the table above
Paul Turner in order
12 booksAlien Danger in order
3 books- 1. Alien Quest
- 2. Alien Home
- 3. Alien Victory
Shane and Corey in order
3 booksRoger & Steve Teen Mystery in order
3 booksMike King in order
2 booksMark Zubro Short Stories/Novellas
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Mark Richard Zubro books in order?
You only need to read Mark Richard Zubro books in order within each series: the books listed here span 6 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Mark Richard Zubro
Start with A Simple Suburban Murder (1988), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Mark Richard Zubro book?
Peace (2024) is the newest Mark Richard Zubro book released so far.
Is there a new Mark Richard Zubro book coming?
No next Mark Richard Zubro book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Mark Richard Zubro at a glance
- Still publishing
- Mark Richard Zubro published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Mark Richard Zubro books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,977 pages across the 23 of 38 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Mark Richard Zubro books, 11 of 38, were published in the 1990s.
When Mark Richard Zubro books were published
Publication distribution by decade, showing when Mark Richard Zubro titles appeared. 1990s was the most productive decade with 11 titles.
38 books total across 5 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.
What the Mark Richard Zubro books are about
28 of the 38 Mark Richard Zubro books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: gay men is tagged on 22 of 28. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Gay men 22 of 28 books
- Scott Carpenter (Fictitious character) 13 of 28 books
- Tom Mason (Fictitious character) 13 of 28 books
- Baseball players 10 of 28 books
- High school teachers 10 of 28 books
- Gay police officers 9 of 28 books
- Mystery & detective 9 of 28 books
- Paul Turner (Fictitious character) 9 of 28 books
- Turner, paul (fictitious character) 8 of 28 books
- Carpenter, scott (fictitious character) 7 of 28 books
- Police 6 of 28 books