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Joe McKinney

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About this author

Joe McKinney has been a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a homicide detective, a disaster mitigation specialist, a patrol commander, and a successful novelist. His books include the four part Dead World series, Quarantined and Dodging Bullets. His short fiction has been collected in The Red Empire and Other Stories and Dating in Dead World and Other Stories. For more information go to http://joemckinney.wordpress.com.


Average rating: 3.87 · 5,995 ratings · 645 reviews · 55 distinct works · Similar authors
Dead City (Dead World, #1)
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 2,408 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
Apocalypse of the Dead (Dea...
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 1,208 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
Flesh Eaters (Dead World, #3)
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 721 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
Quarantined
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
Mutated  (Dead World, #4)
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
Inheritance
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
The Crossing
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
The Red Empire and Other St...
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
Lost Girl of the Lake
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4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
The Sound of Horror
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007
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3.8361018826135105 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 4,515 ratings

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Joe Shay (Shannon) wrote: "Thanks for accepting the friend request!"

Thanks for asking me! Looking forward to reading your reviews.


Shay (Shannon) Thanks for accepting the friend request!


message 3: by Tony

Tony Hey Joe,

Thanks for adding me as a friend. I hope you have a great week.

Tony


message 2: by Joe

Joe Hey, no problem. I'm still trying to learn my way around GoodReads, so I barely notice when something goes wrong. Hope all is well,

Joe


Jeremy I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy


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