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Tim Downs

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Born

in St. Louis, The United States

Website

http://www.timdowns.net

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

Member Since

March 2009

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Tim Downs is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University. After graduation in 1976 he created a comic strip, Downstown, which was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate (Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury, The Far Side) from 1980 to 1986. His cartooning has appeared in more than a hundred daily newspapers worldwide. Tim has written seven mystery/suspense novels: Shoofly Pie, Chop Shop, PlagueMaker, Head Game, First the Dead, Less than Dead, and Ends of the Earth. PlagueMaker was awarded the Christy Award for the best CBA mystery/suspense novel of 2006, and Less than Dead was a finalist for the 2009 Christian Book Award in suspense fiction. Tim lives in Cary, North Carolina, with his wife Joy. They have three grown children.

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Nick of Time Book Giveaway Winners Announced!

Here are the six winners in the Two-Days-Only Nick of Time Book Giveaway:

Thomas Landskron of Cottontown, TN

Kelly Tidwell of Martinsburg, WV

Stephen Ellis of Knoxville, TN

Ruth Ostrander of Sandwich, IL

Troy Tennard of Parsippany, NJ

Paula McCarville of Coleman, WI

Congratulations to all the winners. The publisher will be mailing your books soon. And thanks to everyone who entered!

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Tim Downs’s books

Average rating: 4.3 · 16,660 ratings · 2,071 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	Shoofly Pie (Bug Man, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First the Dead (Bug Man Series #3) 4.24 avg rating — 1,399 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plague Maker: A Thriller 4.04 avg rating — 1,425 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chop Shop (Bug Man, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 1,053 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Less than Dead (Bug Man Series #4) 4.44 avg rating — 963 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nick of Time (Bug Man Series #6) 4.25 avg rating — 816 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ends of the Earth (Bug Man, #5) 4.32 avg rating — 733 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Head Game 4.12 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonders Never Cease 3.65 avg rating — 367 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shoofly Pie & Chop Shop: 2 Bugman Novels in 1 4.46 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It's true what they say, you know: if you talk to God, you're religious; but if you hear from God, yor're schizophrenic.”
― Tim Downs, Wonders Never Cease

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“Pete had always been a compulsive organizer, but the man himself was so sociable and friendly that he could seem absentminded at times. Nick was the diametric opposite; his mind was completely organized, but his physical environment was always in chaos.”
― Tim Downs, Nick of Time

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“The early fly gets the cadaver”
― Tim Downs, First the Dead

tags: cadaver, death, fly, insect

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