Books by Author Stephen Holgate

by Stephen Holgate
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5 books
I’ve been a fortunate man. My dream since fourth grade has been to be an author. I’ve also had the great good fortune to experience adventures I couldn’t have dreamed of as a kid. These experiences have given me something I had thought I lacked – something unique to write about. With the great assistance of my agent, I have published four novels of suspense, intrigue and romance in foreign lands, with a fifth one coming out next spring. But I have also written a few set here in my native Oregon, with the first of them published this year.
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Tangier

Stephen Holgate, 2017
Two parallel tales, set fifty years apart, tell us of a middle-aged man searching the dark, crooked streets of Tangier for the father he never knew, and how his father got caught up in the intrigues and dangers of that spy-infested city during World War II. Winner of the Silver Prize in Fiction from the Independent Publishers association.

Madagascar

Stephen Holgate, 2018
Robert Knott—diplomat, reformed alcoholic, unreformed gambler, and inveterate smart-ass—finds himself under threat of disgrace, and even murder, on the strange and spirit-ridden island of Madagascar, where the implausible is not only likely but mandatory. Nominated as Book of the Year from Forward Review.

Sri Lanka

A Novel
Stephen Holgate, 2020
A chance meeting in Paris turns the life of Philip Reid, an aging and cynical diplomat, upside down, sending him back to when he had been younger and better in war-torn Sri Lanka. A tale marked by terrorist bombings, political assassination, romance and intrigue. (FWIW, my agent’s favorite.)

To Live and Die in the Floating World

Stephen Holgate, 2021
Drunk, broke, on the run, Kip Weston thinks he has found refuge in a job on a small tourist barge in Burgundy. He soon finds that in his love for a beautiful young woman, he has fallen into far greater danger than he was in already. Femme fatales, mafiosos and suspense mark this story based on events that occurred the year before I worked on the boat where this tale is set.

The Goddess and Martin Dayson

Stephen Holgate, 2024
Martin Dayson, defeated in his re-election for governor, licks his wounds in a tiny community near the Coast Range. While making a garden, he digs up a mysterious stone fertility icon that speaks to him in ways he cannot understand. At the same time, a mysterious young woman keeps crossing his property despite his efforts to shout her off. These three elements weave a spell of mysticism, drama and humor that may cast a spell over its readers.