The Dead Man Volume 1: Face of Evil, Ring of Knives, Hell in H...

Three stories of unspeakable evil make up The Dead Man Volume 1, an action adventure collection full of dark humor, surprising twists, and supernatural terror: Matthew Cahill, dead and buried in an avalanche, wakes up in a morgue three months later in Face of Evil. But now he sees things no one else can and when his friend goes on a killing spree, he realizes the evil Mr. Dark has a plan for him.While searching for Mr. Dark, Matt finds himself in Heaven, Washington, a tiny hamlet in the Cascade Mountains embroiled in a four-family blood feud in Hell in Heaven. Only Matt can stop the bloodshed, but even he is going to have a hard time figuring out why Mr. Dark brought him here.Matt believes a madman may hold the key to defeating Mr. Dark and his rotting touch. To find him, Matt must infiltrate a lunatic asylum in Ring of Knives--and his only chance of escaping alive is to face the unspeakable terror deep in the asylum's woods.

darned if the books aren’t funny. To put it in a nutshell, I simply couldn’t put them down. No, really, I mean it. Literally. Once I started, I read each one through in a single night, which isn’t usual for me. And now I’m hooked on the series. My God, what’s happening to me?

“I don’t like horror novels. I don’t much care for the fantasy genre. And buckets of gore put me off. So how come I read two of these books? I’ll be honest with you: I was sort of trapped into it (don’t ask). And what do you know, I loved them, notwithstanding the above. First of all, Goldberg and Rabkin are keen observers and fine writers. Exposition, dialogue, plotting, description…they’re all first-rate: economical, coherent, and convincing. And Mathew Cahill is a genuinely intriguing character. And―to my surprise

Aaron Elkins, author of The Worst Thing, Uneasy Relations, and The Dark Place

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About the Author

William Rabkin is a two-time Edgar Award nominee who writes the Psych series of novels and is the author of Writing the Pilot. He has consulted for studios in Canada, Germany, and Spain on television series production and teaches screenwriting at UCLA Extension and as an adjunct professor in UC Riverside’s low-residency master’s program.Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award–nominated TV producer and a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. His many books include the long-running Diagnosis Murder and Monk mysteries, The Walk, King City, Watch Me Die, and the international bestseller The Heist, which he co-wrote with Janet Evanovich. His numerous TV writing and producing credits include Diagnosis Murder, Monk, SeaQuest, Nero Wolfe, and The Glades. He's also worked as a consultant for TV networks and studios in Europe, Canada, and Sweden and has served on the Board of the Mystery Writers of America.

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