http://www.sheldonrussell.com
Dr. Russell published his first novel, Empire, in
1993 with Evans Publications, Inc. He followed that suspense
novel with two historic frontier titles—The Savage
Trail (Pinnacle Books, 1993) and Requiem at Dawn
(Pinnacle Books, 2000). Requiem at Dawn was a
finalist for Best Original Paperback in the 2001 Western
Writers of America, Inc., Spur Awards competition.
In 2006, the University of Oklahoma Press released Dreams
to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush, which was
selected as an Official Oklahoma Centennial Project. It won
both the Oklahoma Book Award for fiction and the Langum
Prize for Historical Literature. With The Yard Dog: A
Mystery (Minotaur Books, September 2009), Russell
introduces the Hook Runyon series. The first book finds Hook
investigating a murder at an Oklahoma railroad yard near a
German POW camp during WWII. The Insane Train,
second in the series, was selected as one of the six best
mysteries of 2010 by Publishers Weekly.