Location: United States
Member Since:
July 25, 2010
Publisher Hickey & McGee
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Hickey's Books was founded by often awarded novelist Ken Kuhlken (kenkuhlken.net), originally as a brick and mortar bookstore. When he gave up that noble endeavor, he turned to publishing in fear he otherwise might get lazy and drink too much or worry too much about politics and the human condition.
Along the way, Clifford Hickey and Jodi McGee took over the business and allowed Ken to focus on novels and teaching at
Perelandra College (perelandra.edu). He also reads a lot, plays golf now and then, hangs out with his kids, and plants herbs and vegetables in hopes they will grow.
Along the way, Clifford Hickey and Jodi McGee took over the business and allowed Ken to focus on novels and teaching at
Perelandra College (perelandra.edu). He also reads a lot, plays golf now and then, hangs out with his kids, and plants herbs and vegetables in hopes they will grow.
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Vagabond Blues
by Emmanuel Burgin
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 71,160.
Language:
English.
Published: August 5, 2021
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Sports, Fiction » Coming of age
Vagabond Blues is an insider’s peek into minor league football in the early 1980’s, an entire netherworld that most people never had the opportunity to see, let alone experience. Though the novel portrays the violent nature of the sport it is more than just a depiction of its brutality. Vagabond Blues is a cautionary tale of when manacles of morals are cast off in pursuit of a dream.
Hickey & Hickey
by Ken Kuhlken
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 139,580.
Language:
English.
Published: July 24, 2021
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
The two books that together become Hickey & Hickey are the harrowing story of a talented brother and gifted sister attempting to make good in early 20th century Los Angeles. This is hardly easy, given World War I, the wild and violent prohibition era, the Great Depression, and the facts that their father went missing when they were little and their mother is mad.
The Vagabond Virgins
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: Hickey Family Crime Novels.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 73,130.
Language:
English.
Published: February 13, 2021
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
A Holy Virgin, or a convincing fraud, appears in Mexico, dedicating herself to the overthrow of the corrupt and tyrannical Partido Revolucionario Institutional. And a woman who claims to be the Virgin’s sister brings San Diego law student and private investigator Alvaro Hickey a chance to help reform the country of his birth.
The Do-Re-Mi
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: Hickey Family Crime Novels.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 75,030.
Language:
English.
Published: January 23, 2021
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
A Shamus Best P.I. Novel Award finalist. Rural Northern California, 1972, Tom and Wendy Hickey’s adopted son Alvaro, a musician booked at a folk festival, flees from a murder accusation. His brother Clifford’s best chance of proving him innocent requires the help of hippies and Jesus freaks.
The Angel Gang
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: Hickey Family Crime Novels.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 68,590.
Language:
English.
Published: January 2, 2021
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
(Lake Tahoe, San Diego, L.A. 1950) An L.A. mob’s beef against Tom leads to the kidnapping of pregnant Wendy Hickey. Alone, Tom can’t save her, but with the help of the Nevada mob and Tahoe’s resident angels, in whom Wendy steadfastly believes, maybe . . .
The Loud Adios
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: Hickey Family Crime Novels.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 73,720.
Language:
English.
Published: December 12, 2020
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical
Private Eye Writers of America Best First Novel winner. In 1943, Tom Hickey, an M.P. on the U.S./Mexico border, accompanies Private Clifford Rose to a Tijuana nightclub where Clifford claims German Nazis are holding his sister captive. They find Wendy dancing naked on the stage. She appears so lost and innocent, Tom agrees to rescue her.
The Holy Grail
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: For America.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 53,200.
Language:
English.
Published: February 17, 2020
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural, Fiction » Literature » Literary
The Holy Grail concludes the For America saga with Otis escaping from prison and fleeing Mexico in pursuit of revenge and to settle with his nemesis Cynthia Jones and with the man she calls the Enemy, who has returned to his family home on a spiritualist commune near Mount Shasta.
War
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: For America.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 40,370.
Language:
English.
Published: January 1, 2020
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action, Fiction » Historical » USA
Book Four of For America. Otis Otterbach decides he won't live in the same world as the ones who killed his dearest friend. He trains to make himself into a ruthless warrior then and sets off on what he supposes will likely be a suicide mission. After searching in wilderness and jungles, he finally arrives in the capital of Mexico, where the Enemy and followers await him.
Happy
by Ken Kuhlken
You set the price!
Words: 10,830.
Language:
English.
Published: December 13, 2019
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Philosophy » Movements / existentialism, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christian Life / Spiritual Growth
Soren Kierkegaard has helped me navigate through difficult times, some of which involved a state of mind Mr. Kierkegaard lived through. Rather than use a more clinical (and offensive) word, I'll call it melancholy. For Christmas, 2019, I'm trying to share and honor the philosopher's wisdom.
The Gas Crisis
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: For America.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 42,200.
Language:
English.
Published: November 28, 2019
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Following the loss of his home and best friend,, Otis faces tough questions including whether to stay married and whether to kill Henry Tucker, whom his nemesis Cynthia Jones calls the Enemy. These dilemmas send him from California to Iowa where he enrolls in a prestigious graduate school, encounters famous writers living and dead, and flees in haunted desperation.
This Rough Beast
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: For America.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 39,350.
Language:
English.
Published: October 17, 2019
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Historical » USA, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Otis Otterbach attempts to make a life after his best and most trusted friend disappears, perhaps on the run from arrest for murder. The story follows and interprets the hopes and turmoil of the 1960s including the Vietnam war, protest movements in Berkeley, and the Manson family from the point of view of the girl whose testimony assured Manson's conviction.
Supermen
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: For America.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 36,690.
Language:
English.
Published: September 4, 2019
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Sports
Otis Otterbach, born the day the atom bomb destroys Hiroshima, is mentored by his grandma, a poet and painter who teaches him to believe in the implausible, and his father who coaches him in baseball so well, he becomes a big-league pitching prospect. But wicked conflicts visit in the person of Cynthia Jones, mother of Casey, Otis’s best friend and catcher.
Hickey & McGee
by Ken Kuhlken
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 274,130.
Language:
English.
Published: December 1, 2018
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » Christian » Mystery & detective
Hickey and McGee is at once an epic love story and a novel of crime, corruption, faith, madness, and extreme courage.
A Hickey family crime novel:
"Elegant, eloquent, and elegiac, Kuhlken's novels sing an old melody, at the same time haunting and beautiful." Novelist Don Winslow
The Answer to Everything
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: Hickey Family Crime Novels.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 92,500.
Language:
English.
Published: December 1, 2018
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Courtroom, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
The Answer to Everything: (San Diego, Tijuana, Lake Tahoe, 1990) Attorney Alvaro Hickey assists in the murder of a Tijuana cartel sicaro then becomes the murderer’s lawyer. The cartel, which has lately massacred an entire family, now targets another whole family -- Alvaro's.
The Very Least
by Ken Kuhlken
Series: Hickey Family Crime Novels.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 97,080.
Language:
English.
Published: October 1, 2018
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller, Fiction » Literature » Literary
The Very Least: (San Diego, Tijuana, Lake Tahoe, 1985) A dear friend of journalist Clifford Hickey's cousin Bo crosses the border on the run from a charge of molesting children in a church nursery school. After Clifford offers to help Bo clear her friend, he infuriates killers, politicians, church leaders, and tycoons on both sides of the border.
Newport Ave.
by Ken Kuhlken
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 65,920.
Language:
English.
Published: March 1, 2018
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller, Fiction » Christian » Suspense
A fugitive from a manslaughter charge returns home to a foggy California beach town hoping to protect his sister from her estranged husband, a mob-connected gambler. He and his closest old friend, a devoted Christian family man, decide the only sure way to protect the sister is to kill the gambler. Newport Ave, a gripping novel in the noir tradition explores crime's endless consequences.
There Goes the Neighborhood
by Mark Stephen Clifton
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 35,070.
Language:
English.
Published: December 17, 2017
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Nonfiction » True Crime » Murder » General, Nonfiction » True Crime » Drug trade
San Carlos was is an inland bedroom community. Ocean Beach was the bohemian jewel of San Diego. What tied these two communities together was not just beautiful weather. A war between gangs of outlaw bikers, the rampant abuse of drugs, serial killers, and suicide turned what might have been an idyllic existence into a dreadful one.
Cars: California Stories
by Ken Kuhlken
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 47,000.
Language:
English.
Published: February 16, 2016
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
Cars: California Stories: The lowdown about a state we all should visit though we might not want to risk living there.
Shockabonda
by Olga Savitsky
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 20,790.
Language:
English.
Published: January 17, 2015
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Poetry » Spiritual
Olga Savitsky lived in the manner Jesus Christ modeled, putting aside everything most of us crave in exchange for the freedom that allowed her to help people in need and to spend plenty of time listening, talking and writing to God. Shockabonda is her collection of poems and prayers, testimony to a rare and beautiful life from which we all should learn.
Write Smart
by Ken Kuhlken
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 10,550.
Language:
English.
Published: December 3, 2013
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing, Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing & books
(4.00 from 1 review)
Ken Kuhlken shares insights gained over thirty-some years as a novelist and professor. By following the Write Smart process, writers will efficiently conceive, create, revise, and sell their stories.
Reading Brother Lawrence
by Ken Kuhlken
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 34,230.
Language:
English.
Published: October 29, 2011
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Religious biography, Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Christianity
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Practice of the Presence of God is a classic of Christian literature, loved by Catholics and Protestants, praised by the likes of John Wesley and A.W. Tozer. During a troubled time, novelist Ken Kuhlken discovered the book helped him find some peace and promised even more if he could fully understand. Reading Brother Lawrence chronicles his search for understanding.
The Gachi
by Susan Salguero
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 72,120.
Language:
English.
Published: November 6, 2010
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Entertainment » Music, Nonfiction » Biography » Woman biographies
(5.00 from 1 review)
She wasn’t the only angry woman at U.C. Berkeley. Edgy but unaware of the reasons, she only knew she had to flee, that she couldn’t save the world until she had first saved herself.
A passion for music delivered her to Spain, to Seville, a provincial city fertile with the cry of guitar. There, coveting gypsy power, driven to dance with wild audacity, she staked her life on Flamenco.
Million Dollar Man
by Jared Brown
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 85,370.
Language:
English.
Published: October 25, 2010
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction » Law » Family law
In Million Dollar Man, a phone call from a neighbor reporting a suspicious character at his home sends Jared Brown, a family man and Christian psychologist to jail and other places on the outskirts of hell, where he finds a path to redemption for himself and others. A true story of trials and deliverance.
No Cats, No Chocolate
by Alan Russell & Ken Kuhlken
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 27,310.
Language:
English.
Published: October 4, 2010
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Travel » Trip Journals, Nonfiction » Publishing » Playwriting
In No Cats, No Chocolate, mystery authors Ken Kuhlken and Alan Russell hit the road with high hopes and dreams of winning the fame they're convinced they deserve, as guests on a national television show.
Road Kill
by Ken Kuhlken & Alan Russell
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 12,650.
Language:
English.
Published: October 1, 2010
by
Publisher Hickey & McGee.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
Road Kill introduces Ken Kuhlken and Alan Russell, an odd pair of mystery writers on an epic journey to convince America's readers. to buy their books. But allied against them are dark forces perhaps led by their competitors.
Series
Hickey Family Crime Novels
by Ken Kuhlken
The Loud Adios
The Angel Gang
The Do-Re-Mi
The Vagabond Virgins
The Very Least
The Answer to Everything
The Hickey family novels, which begin with Tom Hickey's first investigation at age twenty-one and continues, over ten books, until his eighty-fifth year, are riveting stories of crime, heroics, and sacrificial love that also offer a vivid and panoramic vision of California as it transforms from a frontier to the most influential place on earth. Readers who accompany Tom and his extraordinary family on their adventures enrich their knowledge of America and the dark and bright recesses of the human heart.
“Tom Hickey is one of detective fiction’s most original and intriguing creations.” San Francisco Chronicle
“Elegant, eloquent, and elegiac, Kuhlken’s novels sing an old melody, at the same time haunting and beautiful.” Novelist Don Winslow
The Loud Adios
Price:
$4.99 USD.
The Angel Gang
Price:
$4.99 USD.
The Do-Re-Mi
Price:
$4.99 USD.
The Vagabond Virgins
Price:
$4.99 USD.
The Very Least
Price:
$4.99 USD.
The Answer to Everything
Price:
$4.99 USD.
For America
by Ken Kuhlken
Supermen
This Rough Beast
The Gas Crisis
War
The Holy Grail
FOR AMERICA is a long, long novel, a saga, and also an incantation, a work of magic created to postpone the end of the world for at least a thousand years.
The five books are:
Supermen: Otis Otterbach and his best friend and catcher Casey get drafted to the MLB. But Casey’s mother, homicidal Cynthia Jones has a different plan. She means for the boys to kill her sister's son, whom she believes is a demon she calls the Enemy.
This Rough Beast: A story of the 1960s including the Vietnam war through the eyes of an infantry soldier, a helicopter pilot, and a deserter; protest movements in Berkeley; and the Manson family from the point of view of a girl who belonged.
The Gas Crisis: In Iowa following the loss of his home and dearest friend, encounters with famous writers living and dead deliver Otis to haunted desperation.
War: Otis agrees to kill the Enemy and sets off on a suicide mission.
The Holy Grail: In a Mexican prison, Otis rediscovers baseball. Then comes news of the rape of a woman he loves. He escapes and goes to settle with the rapist, with relentless Cynthia Jones, and with a team of Manson worshippers seeking revenge.
Supermen
Price:
$3.99 USD.
This Rough Beast
Price:
$3.99 USD.
The Gas Crisis
Price:
$3.99 USD.
War
Price:
$3.99 USD.
The Holy Grail
Price:
$3.99 USD.
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