Books by Mark Rubinstein
Peril on West Tenth
By Mark Rubinstein
When Evan Brody, an attorney, and Greg Jeffries, a writer, go to Amanda Taylor’s apartment, they’re joined by Natalie, a friend of Amanda’s. Natalie and Amanda are both successful artists. The foursome has no idea of what awaits them that night.
Only a few evenings earlier, Amanda met a man, Sebastian, at a nearby restaurant. The meeting was completely casual and was a matter of happenstance.
Sebastian is an art lover and an opera buff. Amanda, too, loves opera. They have a stimulating conversation about art and opera. Sebastian expresses an interest in purchasing some of Amanda’s lithographs. They arrange for him to visit both Amanda’s studio and the gallery showing her artwork.
That random meeting at a restaurant sets into motion life-threatening events that force Greg, Natalie, Amanda, and Evan to come to terms with their own mortality.
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Season of Fear
By Mark Rubinstein
No One Knows What the Future Holds.
When psychiatrist John Randall does a fitness-for-duty evaluation of police officer Ed Gannon, he has no idea of what lies ahead. A few weeks after the psychiatric evaluation, he receives a subpoena to testify at a trial in which Gannon is suing his employer for alleged discrimination. At the same time, a deranged man, Charles Davis, has escaped from the Yale Psychiatric Hospital and, for his own bizarre reasons, has John in his crosshairs. So begins a harrowing series of events that threatens to upend the lives of John, his wife, Ellen, and their seven-year-old daughter, Maya. John and Ellen must find the inner resources to deal with these mortal challenges to the family’s peaceful suburban life.
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A Splendid Death
By Mark Rubinstein
When Nothing Is as It Seems, Anything Is Possible.
When Aron, a twenty-one-year-old college student, arranges to meet his older brother, Brett, in the quaint village of San Martin on Spain’s Costa Brava, he expects a fun-filled two-week vacation. But Aron and Brett encounter corruption and evil they could never have imagined. Crucial choices must be made, which resonate powerfully in this tale of love, doubt, envy, violence, and chance. Aron must grapple with the darkness hidden deeply in his own heart and must deal with the fact that nothing is as it seems to be.
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A Lethal Question
By Mark Rubinstein
With one patient’s question, a therapist’s life careens off the rails.
Manhattan psychiatrist Bill Madrian takes pride in the level of trust he establishes with his patients. For a patient to open up, they must truly believe that everything said in a therapy session remains confidential. But Bill has never realized the complications this confidentiality could present- until he treats Alex Bronzi.
One day, in a session with Alex, the young man asks, ” Hey Doc, ya wanna know who clipped Boris Levenko?” Bill can hardly believe his ears. Boris Levenko was a major crime boss who had been executed a few days prior. The question, so loaded with portent, gives Bill information he desperately did not want to hear.
With this knowledge, Bill’ s life is upended, and he begins a fight for survival that takes him and his loved ones on a nightmarish journey far beyond the realm of anything he could have ever imagined. Bill has to untangle himself from a web of deceit and corruption or risk losing his career, his family, and his life. More >>
Perfect for fans of Joseph Finder and Dennis Lehane
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DownfallFirst, his doppelganger is killed-then it’s his father. Rick Shepherd is being stalked by a murderer.
When Rick Shepherd, a physician, approaches his office on a busy Manhattan street, he finds police cars, an ambulance, and crime scene technicians. He soon learns a passerby was shot three times in the back, murdered at the front door to Rick’s office.
Later that evening while watching the local news, Rick and his fiancee, Jackie, see a photo of the victim-to their horror, the deceased looks identical to Rick.
Two nights later, while making a house call in a Brooklyn apartment building, Rick’s 64-year-old father is shot and killed in the exact same way. Detectives Art Nager and Liz Callaghan are assigned the case, and they launch an investigation. There are no clues leading to the perpetrator.
Even more ominously, someone has been calling Rick and Jackie’s apartment and hanging up. Whoever is targeting Rick must have murdered his father, and they now have Rick in their crosshairs. Nager and Callaghan seem to be making no progress with their investigation. Rick’s quest for the truth draws him into a labyrinth of secrets, past tragedies, and the agonizing pain of lives shattered by a single event. Can he make it out before he meets the same fate as his father? More>>
Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and J. D. Robb
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Assassin’s LullabyIn every life, there lurks catastrophe. So believes Eli Dagan, a thirty-nine-year-old man whose traumatic past led to his service as an assassin for the Mossad. He now lives in New York City, where under various assumed names he’s a contract killer. Anton Gorlov, the head of the Brooklyn-based Odessa mafia, has a new and challenging assignment for Eli. Gorlov wants to leave the country permanently, so all loose ends must be eliminated. He’s willing to pay $1 million for a task divided into two parts. The job involves extreme measures along with unprecedented danger for Eli, who has lived a ghostly existence over the last ten years. Is accepting Gorlov’s offer a subliminal death wish? Or is it a way to reclaim part of his damaged soul? For the first time since his pregnant wife and parents were killed by a suicide bomber years earlier, Eli Dagan faces challenges that will reconnect him with his blighted past and may yet offer hope for a new and better life. Read an excerpt Available now!
The Storytellers: Straight Talk from the World’s Most Acclaimed Suspense & Thriller AuthorsHave you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real? For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post.
Collected here are interviews with forty-seven accomplished authors, including Michael Connelly, Ken Follett, Meg Gardiner, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, and Don Winslow. These are their personal stories in their own words, much of the material never before published. How do these writers’ life experiences color their art? Find out their thoughts, their inspirations, their candid opinions. Learn more about your favorite authors, how they work and who they truly are.
Mad Dog VengeanceWhen successful surgeon Roddy Dolan accepts medical-school classmate Dr. Vinzy Masconi’s invitation to dinner, he’s only expecting a great meal at Geppetto’s, one of the Bronx’s “Little Italy” restaurants. But what awaits him is far more than a perfectly prepared veal chop and risotto: Roddy is commanded to do the unthinkable.More>>
Beyond Bedlam’s DoorWhat drove a psychiatrist to enlist a patient in a plot to murder six people? What was the secret bargain struck that allowed a 104-year-old woman to live such a long and productive life? More>>
Why would a man born in Hungary and living on Manhattan’s Lower East Side run down Delancey Street ranting “I’m king of the Puerto Ricans”?
What would compel a physically healthy woman to persuade surgeons to operate on her more than a dozen times? More>>
The Lovers’ Tango
Everything in Bill Shaw’s life changed the moment he met the beautiful actress Nora Reyes. But as a writer, he feared their love story would have a tragic ending. Fifteen years after that fateful encounter, Bill is in the DA’s crosshairs: his research for a novel has eerie parallels to the circumstances surrounding Nora’s death. More>>
Return to SandaraWhen Gabriel, a twenty-year-old college student, arranges to meet his older brother, Luke, in the quaint village of Sandara on Spain’s Costa Brava, he expects a fun-filled summer. But Gabriel and Luke encounter corruption and evil. Crucial choices must be made… More>>
Mad Dog Justice
Roddy Dolan, a surgeon, and Danny Burns, an accountant, are being hunted as prey. Someone is after them-with lethal intentions-but they don’t know who or why. Whoever it is, and for whatever reason, they and their families are in the crosshairs of killers. More>>
The Foot Soldier
Right after college graduation, Costa, a lower-middle-class kid from Buffalo, New York, is drafted into the US army and plunged into the Vietnam War. The Foot Solder catapults the reader back to the conflict that changed America. More>>
Love Gone Mad
When heart surgeon Adrian Douglas and Megan Haggarty, RN, meet at the hospital where they work, neither has any idea of the scorpion’s nest into which they’ve stumbled. Strange and frightening events begin happening to each of them; someone is after them both-and the stalker not only is brilliant and crafty but vows to exact revenge for the ultimate betrayal. More>>
Mad Dog HouseRoddy Dolan and Danny Burns, a surgeon and an accountant with checkered pasts, become silent partners in a Manhattan steakhouse. They’re swept up in a criminal maelstrom that threatens their families’ lives. More>>